December 8th, 2011 
A new survey puts the depth of the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, at 10,994 meters, nearly 75 meters more than deepest of prior estimates. The new survey was conducted by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire. Also interesting is
The US State Department funded the study because it wants to know whether the exclusive economic zone encompassing the American territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands can be pushed out beyond its current limit of 200 nautical miles (370km).
Sure there is that’s what she said joke in here somewhere
So it’s the slight difference between “flat as a pancake” and “slightly flatter” for us air breathing humans down there. By the way anyone seen Sir Richard lately, wasn’t he supposed to fly down there in a sub as of late?
[...] you don’t have to dive very deep before things get dark. So it’s not surprising that the depth of the Mariana Trench—the deepest point on the ocean floor—has been found to be just a…. The deepest point, known as Challenger Deep, is 10,994 meters (about 6.8 miles) below the surface, [...]