Talk:Mariana trench

Correct depth?
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On your site you say that the Trench has a maximum depth of 35,795 ft. But later in the article, "In an unprecedented dive, the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on January 23, 1960 with U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. Iron shot was used for ballast, with gasoline for buoyancy. The onboard systems indicated a depth of 37,800 ft (11,521 m), but this was later revised to 35,813 ft (10,916 m)" I wasn't a math major..but if the Trieste went to 35,813...that would seem to be deeper than 35,795. So which figure is in error?

Reference #7 linking to the US Fish and Wildlife Service page is a dead link. The link should be updated to https://fws.gov/refuge/mariana-trench

Duoculus (talk) 04:22, 2 August 2022 (UTC)