The Mariana hollow – the interesting facts

The mysteries of the Mariana hollow still excite scientific minds. Everything that we know of this place, only lifts the veil of secrecy. It is necessary to conduct many researches still. Perhaps, special technologies will be for this purpose thought up. For now too is what to think of.

Interesting facts, opening and riddles of the Mariana hollow

1. Water of the Mariana hollow has the features. Pressure in it is more than one thousand times stronger, than in ocean level. To plunge here without special equipment – all the same what to go to a certain death.
2. Scientists managed to define the maximum level of depth of the hollow – it reaches 11 km. Scale strikes, especially if to draw a parallel with the highest mountain in the world – Everest. The peak has height only 8.8 km. If mentally to ship Everest in the Mariana hollow, then it completely will disappear under water.
3. The name of the Mariana hollow happens from the Mariana Islands.
4. In scientific circles the hollow is quite often called the most deep-water trench. Several expeditions were already sent to a bottom of this trench to learn that at the bottom of the Mariana hollow. By means of special research cars it was succeeded to learn not so much.
5. Waters of the Mariana hollow rather warm – from one to four degrees of heat. But water temperature is much higher, than in other sea depths. It is connected with deep-water hydrothermal sources. The research of the Mariana hollow allowed to find out that water in these depths and around them heats up already to 450 degrees.
6. Under thickness of water there is even the active volcano – to Daykok.
7. If to speak about the beings living in the Mariana hollow, then it is worth reporting that surprising organisms – ksenofiofor live in the well-known trench of the earth. These are the monocelled poisonous beings having ten centimeters a diameter. But it is not the only inhabitants of the Mariana hollow. There is still a set of mollusks for which it is a home. Invertebrates perfectly feel at such depth, near hydrothermal sources.