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 The best candidate for the biggest hole in the Earth's Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. The bottom of the trench is 10,910 feet below sea level and is the largest hollow crust. But this is not the deepest place on Earth. At the Earth's highest peak, Mt. Everest stood for thousands of people. The deepest place ocean reached far only two daredevils. U.S. Navy Sergeant Don Walsh and engineer, researcher depths, Jacques Piccard. In 1960, he left at the bottom of the Trieste.
They used to soak the ballast of iron balls, and the emergence of a lighter tank ensures water from gasoline. Bathyscaphe cabin had to be really solid. At the bottom of the pressure was more than 1000 times greater than on the surface of the ocean. For each square centimeter of plating of the vessel with the power of water has pushed more than 1 tonne. Both scientists were surprised when the windows of a vehicle seen floating freely fish and shrimp. But in spite of the extreme depths Mariana Trench may not deserve the name of the largest hole in the earth. Well because what a hole, which is not visible from the surface. Besides, this is not the deepest place on Earth. We have to look elsewhere. So perhaps we should look for the biggest hole in a cave? Or a canyon? This is quite promising clues. Caves can be enormous. System of underground caves, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the U.S. extends the length up to 587 kilometers. The world's deepest cave is the cave having a depth of 2191 meters. It's a little more than an inverted . The cave is located in Georgia, in the region of Abkhazia. Was penetrated mainly by Ukrainians, Russians. It is quite possible that the next expedition discovers an even deeper part of the cave, yet not sure where is the end of the corridor. We were also explorers world's deepest canyon. In 1981, the expedition led by Peter sailed kayaks Colca Canyon in the Peruvian Andes. Calculations showed that the canyon is 4160 meters from the summit to the river bed. Is 2 times more than the Grand Canyon of Colorado. Recently add that is even deeper canyon Cotahuasi, also in Peru. Measurements of the canyons, however, raise doubts. Well if I count from the edge? Whether from the surrounding peaks of the canyon? And how far away from the river?
Trip to the center of the Earth But all the other candidates for the deepest hole of the world beats a hole in the Russian Kola Peninsula near Murmansk. Hole is a very sophisticated SG-3. Is an artificial borehole, for that matter ... failed. In 1970 the Russians started the project with the ambitious aim through the Earth's crust to the lower layers. Hoped that this can be achieved after 15 kilometers laboriously for 24 years. In the end surrendered. The level of difficulty has surprised all the researchers. And it's not about the weakness of Russian technical ideas. The Americans surrendered to a much shallower depths. Ultimately, more rocks harder and faster than expected rise in temperature, which reached 180 degrees, kept the great work "boring." Not crust. Subsequent seismic studies have shown that the thickness at this point reaches 35 kilometers. The biggest hole in the Earth illustrates one of the greatest failures of humanity. Earth's core is 6378 kilometers below the surface. It's little, roughly the same as from Warsaw to New York. But the journey to the center of the earth is still unrealistic. 12 kilometers achieved in the well SG-3 is as if they barely get to the gates of Warsaw. Ironically - it was easier for us to fly to the moon and penetrate the furthest reaches of our solar system than to venture into the depths of our planet
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