8 Deepest place on Earth

Something is alluring about venturing to the world's deepest caverns. These are some of the deepest places you may possibly view, from venturing inside the intimidating chamber of a volcano to an ice-filled lake. Of course, at some of these, all you see is black, but at others, you can see the magic that is only available beneath the Earth's surface.

Posted On August 31st, 2021

Mariana Trench

Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard used the bathyscaphe Trieste to explore the deepest section of the ocean for the first time in January 1960. It was also recently investigated by film director James Cameron in 2012. The dive was conducted in a one-man submersible known as the Deepsea Challenger. The director filmed the entire event to promote scientific discovery.

Krubera Cave

The Krubera Cave, located in the Arabika Massive, is now the deepest known cave on the planet. It has long been a popular destination for divers seeking to explore the cave's furthest reaches. The deepest part of the cave has been explored to a depth of 2,197m. Gennadiy Samokhin, a Ukrainian diver, set the record in 2012.

Dormant volcano

This is the only dormant volcano that can be visited from the inside — don't worry, it last erupted 4,000 years ago, and there's no sign of another anytime close. Visitors to Thrihnukagigur Volcano are lowered in on an open elevator and can then marvel at the multi-colored chamber.

Mponeng

Mponeng is a South African gold mine that takes over an hour to reach the bottom 4km below the surface. The structure is the world's deepest man-made hole, and it is still actively mined today. The temperature of the rock in the mine's depths is roughly 60oC, with 95 percent humidity.

Lake Baikal

Because of its distant position in Siberia, Lake Baikal is not a popular tourist destination. It is possible to dive to the lake's bottom; in 2013, divers took the Sochi Olympic Torch to its bottom, and President Putin even went there in a mini-submarine.

Bentley Subglacial Trench

The Bentley Subglacial Trench is the lowest location on Earth's surface that is not covered by the ocean but by ice. The crater is deeper than the Grand Canyon and was discovered by scientists utilizing satellites and ice-penetrating radar to map the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands.

Red Sea Egypt

Ahmed Gabr completed the deepest scuba dive in September 2014. He broke the record by diving 332.35 meters in Egypt's the Red Sea. The new record outpaced the previous one by 14.1m.

Majlis al Jinn cave

The Majlis al Jinn cave is one of the Earth's deepest chambers. What distinguishes it is that the only way in is through abseiling 160m. Unless, of course, you're Felix Baumgartner, who BASE-jumped into the cave in 2007. Chris Sharma and Stefan Glowacz plunged to the cave's bottom and, on their way out, managed to ascend the world's largest un-climbed roof - a never-before-climbed route.