The Challenger Deep: The Oceans In The Ocean

The oceans are a mysterious place, more so than outer space. Oceans are highly unexplored with only five percent of it, has been explored. That leaves ninety-five percent to be discovered. Despite the oceans playing roles in our climate to our air we breath we have not made it down too far.

Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron took on Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean. Cameron made his descent into Challenger Deep at five fifty two local time. His descent took him two hours and thirty-six minutes to reach a record setting depth of 35,756 feet or 10,898 meters down. This is where he was to rendezvous with a vehicle to study animal life down below.

Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo Capsule, the National Geographic

Sadly, the only things that scientists have learned about this where light can reach. Light from the sun can only go down to one-thousand meters. At this zone absolutely no sunlight can reach these depths. This explain why scientists have not been able to explore at this depth. The use of powerful lights and submersibles, allowed us to go down further than ever before, but without the light to see going down below one-thousand meters is useless. To reach the depths of the Titanic the scientists use submersible robots to reach the vessel two miles down.

The Ocean is divided in three different zones. The Sunlight or euphotic, in this zone light can easily penetrate from Sea level to two hundred feet down. Next, is the twilight zone or the dysphotic zone. This zone extends down from two hundred meters down to one thousand meters, light doesn 't make it through this zone but it does reach here. Photosynthesis cannot happen at these depths. Finally, there is the midnight or aphotic zone, light does not reach this depth. (How far does light travel in the ocean,2015)

The midnight zone is where humans have problems exploring, due to the fact that light cannot reach there. Lights are hooked up to submersibles to to try and explore the mysterious world of the midnight zone. New creatures have been discovered in this zone, and more are being found every day.

Marine Biodiversity is necessary for oceans to keep in check and functioning

NOAA created the Office of Ocean Exploration (OOE) in response to the Ocean Exploration Panel being convened, the OOE organizes and facilitates research expeditions to marine sanctuaries off the coast of the United States. Many important expeditions have been sited in these marine sanctuaries like the marine sanctuary in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This sanctuary is the USS Monitor from the Civil War. Another sited is Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in the great lakes region finding shipwrecks in the Great