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Expedition maps hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unexplored seafloor
by The Week team
IBRAHIM CHALHOUB /AFP
An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say. 
The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key locations where the seafloor bottoms out” in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans in order to provide “the most precise information yet” on the oceans’ deepest points, reports the BBC. 
Top of the ocean bottoms
According to a newly published paper in the Geoscience Data Journal, the Five Deeps Expedition mapped 550,000 sq km (212,356 sq miles) of seafloor, “of which 61% comprised new coverage over areas never before surveyed”. ....

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