Dive Animations

Mariana Trench

as seen on the National Geographic channel, December 2006

30Mb .mov, 6Mb .mov, 29Mb .mov, 140Mb HDV .mov

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The Mariana Trench includes the deepest place in the world's oceans, with its maximum depth of approximately 11 kilometers.

Puerto Rico Trench

9mb .mov, 35mb .mov, 122mb HDV .mov
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The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean, but these videos have the vertical dimension strongly exaggerated to further enhance the visual effect.
The maximum depth of the trench is a little greater than 8 kilometers, but its width is over 20 kilometers. The color scheme chosen is arbitrary but represents a typical color for the ocean bottom.

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Vertical exaggeration in the animations:
These videos have the vertical dimension strongly exaggerated to further enhance the visual effect.
The image below contains a real cross section compared with an exaggerated cross section.

These animations were produced by Dr. Peter Sloss of NOAA, with bathymetric data from NCEI.

If you use these animations, please credit NOAA/NCEI.