: of, relating to, or being the parts of the ocean below 6000 meters (about 20,000 feet)
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Beyond a certain depth, specifically below about 200 meters (656 feet), the ocean enters the mesopelagic zone and extends into the abyssal and hadal zones, reaching depths of over 11,000 meters (36,000 feet).
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Below that, only one destination more mysterious and more feared: Hades, or the hadal zone, below 20,000 feet.
—Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
The regions that exceed roughly 3.5 miles, or 20,000 feet, are known as the hadal zone, named after Hades, Greek god of the underworld.
—Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
The deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, is about 36,070 feet, nearly seven miles deep, in the hadal zone, according to NOAA.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 June 2023
In studies, more than half of sampled hadal organisms—those living in the deepest parts of the ocean, beyond 20,000 feet—had plastics in their gut.
—Timothy Shank, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
No other system could so precisely map hadal depths.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
Life at the extremes Welcome to the hadal zone: the deepest part of the ocean.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2019
Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Below that, only one destination more mysterious and more feared: Hades, or the hadal zone, below 20,000 feet.
—Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
The regions that exceed roughly 3.5 miles, or 20,000 feet, are known as the hadal zone, named after Hades, Greek god of the underworld.
—Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
The deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, is about 36,070 feet, nearly seven miles deep, in the hadal zone, according to NOAA.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 June 2023
In studies, more than half of sampled hadal organisms—those living in the deepest parts of the ocean, beyond 20,000 feet—had plastics in their gut.
—Timothy Shank, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
No other system could so precisely map hadal depths.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
Life at the extremes Welcome to the hadal zone: the deepest part of the ocean.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2019
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“Hadal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hadal. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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