Oceanography

With water covering most of the surface of the earth, you would think that we would know more about it, yet it only about 3% of the Oceans floor has been explored.

• It is estimated that over 20,000 volcanoes exist on the oceans floor.
• The grand canyon is dwarfed by some of the trenches on the oceans floor.
• Cape Horn produces 60 foot waves consistently

The deepest point in each of the earth’s oceans are as follows; the Arctic Ocean’s Eurasian Basin at 5,450 meters (17,881 feet) deep, the Indian Ocean’s Java Trench at 7,725 meters (25,344 feet) deep, the Atlantic Ocean’s Puerto Rico Trench at 8,648 meters (28,374 feet) deep and the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench at 11,033 meters (36,201 feet) deep.