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Close ✕Multibeam survey reports a 10,984 m maximum sounding
2010 · Recorded · culture
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A multibeam echosounder survey of the Mariana Trench records a deepest sounding of about 10,984 +/- 25 m. It is the deepest modern acoustic result - and it has never been confirmed by a direct pressure-gauge descent, which is the sharpest single illustration of how much the answer depends on the instrument.
- Source
- Marine Geodesy (Taylor & Francis), Gardner, Armstrong, Calder and Beaudoin · Marine Geodesy 37(1); https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490419.2013.837849
- Standing
- This record: partially verified · publisher: partially verified
- How it arrived
- Editorial — A dated record from the Richseen Atlas editorial corpus, written and cited by a curator. Not captured from anywhere, and not live.
- Where
- At a canonical Atlas object, placed and checked by a curator.
- Subject
- Challenger Deep · Mariana Trench
Sources polled — usgs: newest 2026-09-10 · nws: newest 2026-09-10 · jpl-cneos: states no publication time, last reached 2026-09-10 · Official source connected · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) — marks are drawn only from sourced coordinates