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The 15 Deepest places On Earth, Ranked

Nearly seven miles beneath the ocean waves, tectonic plates collide to carve pitch-black chasms deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

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  1. Full-ocean-depth submersible DSV Limiting Factor descending into the deep ocean abyss.
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Far beneath the sunlit surface of the world's oceans lies the hadal zone, a realm of crushing hydrostatic pressure, near-freezing temperatures, and total darkness. Ranked from seventh-mile fracture zones to the 10,925-meter floor of Challenger Deep, here are the 15 deepest points on the planet.

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©Wikimedia Commons / Arturo Donate & TMDb / Deep Water

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