Puerto Rico Trench
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Oct 31, 2026
TomAUDIENCE
And, uh, South America especially, they talk about the craft that when they finally left these people, they went back into the sea.
TomAUDIENCE
And when you look at the fact that you've got the Marianas Trench that's several miles down, you've got the Puerto Rican Trench that's over five miles down, I wanted to know what your guests' feelings were on the fact that many of the craft that we're seeing didn't originate from out there.
TomAUDIENCE
They originated from right here.
Tim GallaudetGUEST
Well, right, Tom.
Bree TomaselHOST
Question number two.
Bree TomaselHOST
What is the name of the deepest known point in the ocean's earth? Is it the Sunder Trench, the Puerto Rico Trench, or the Challenger Deep? Lady.
Bree TomaselHOST
I'm
Clint RobertsHOST
going to say Lady
Shayla FontaineHOST
Most of the ocean floor in the Bermuda Triangle is at least 19,000 feet deep.
Shayla FontaineHOST
Near Puerto Rico, in the Puerto Rican Trench, it gets even deeper, 27,500 feet deep.
Shayla FontaineHOST
So if a ship or plane wrecks into that water and sinks, you are not likely to find any trace of it.
Shayla FontaineHOST
Then we have to consider weather patterns in that area.
Colin BrowenHOST
The Bermuda Triangle is a loosely defined area of the North Atlantic Ocean marked by Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, forming a triangle of up to 600,000 square miles.
Colin BrowenHOST
This region is shaped by powerful natural forces, including the Gulf Stream, the Sargasso Sea, and the deep Puerto Rico Trench, which have influenced both natural and human history.
Colin BrowenHOST
Bermuda, the northernmost point, was discovered in 1505 by Spanish captain Juan de Bermúdez, and quickly became known for its dangerous reefs.
Colin BrowenHOST
In 1609, the English ship Sea Venture was wrecked there, leading to the first permanent English settlement in 1612.
Colin BrowenHOST
The Gulf Stream along Florida's coast created strong currents and unpredictable weather, historically challenging ships, and later influencing aviation disappearances from Miami.
Colin BrowenHOST
Puerto Rico, the third point, was inhabited by the Taino before Columbus claimed it for Spain in 1493.
Colin BrowenHOST
It became a key military and trading hub, and its northern coast features the Puerto Rico Trench, the Atlantic's deepest point at nearly 27,500 feet.
Colin BrowenHOST
Complex currents and extreme underwater terrain contribute to the region's marine hazards.
Jojo SanandaGUEST
Uh, a lot of that comes down to, like, for my master's it was urbanization and how that affects water quality, and now I'm kind of moving into how wildfire affects water quality and the residual impacts of that long term.
Emma MartinGUEST
So I study the Puerto Rico Trench, and specifically I work with plate tectonics and thinking about subduction zones and how changes in, um, angle of subduction or speed or the material that's down there that's actually getting pulled into the mantle, how that affects slip behavior.
Emma MartinGUEST
And then you can use that to try and influence and inform people about both earthquake and tsunamigenic seismic hazards.
Emma MartinGUEST
Um, so I focus on imaging subduction zones and then thinking about what kind of behaviors are happening and how the tectonic plates are deforming as a whole.
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Emma MartinGUEST
I've also never been to my actual study area.
Bella GrayGUEST
She's never been to the bottom of the ocean, so-
Emma MartinGUEST
I've never been to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench
Bella GrayGUEST
... she doesn't deserve to pass.
Dawn WrightGUEST
His team traveled all around the world and what he wanted to do was to map these five deepest areas because we did not have accurate maps of these areas and then to dive to them in order to explore them and of course to set records.
Dawn WrightGUEST
So he went to the Malawi Hole in the Arctic, the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean, the South Sandwich Trench, which is the deepest place in the Southern Ocean, the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean, and then, of course, the deepest of them all is Challenger Deep in the Pacific.
Dawn WrightGUEST
His team used our mapping technology as they were doing these expeditions.
Dawn WrightGUEST
So technically, Caledon Oceanic is a customer of Esri, my company, and he also reached out to us to support his repeat visit to Challenger Deep in 2020.
Colin BrowenHOST
The Bermuda Triangle is a roughly defined area of the North Atlantic Ocean, typically marked by three points, including Miami, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
Colin BrowenHOST
Together, they form a vast triangle covering up to 600,000 square miles of open ocean, and within these waters lie natural powerful forces: the Gulf Stream, the Sargasso Sea, and the deep Puerto Rico Trench, all of which have shaped both the natural and human history of this area for centuries.
Colin BrowenHOST
The northernmost point of the triangle is Bermuda, a small group of islands with a long and storied past.
Colin BrowenHOST
The area was discovered by Europeans in 1505 by Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez, who gave the island his name but never settled on it.
Colin BrowenHOST
Before European arrival, it was home to the Taino people, a marine culture that navigated the Caribbean long before Christopher Columbus.
Colin BrowenHOST
Columbus claimed Puerto Rico for Spain during his second voyage in 1493, and it soon became one of the empire's most important colonies, serving as a military and trading base that linked Europe and the Americas.
Colin BrowenHOST
Off its northern coast lies the Puerto Rico Trench, plunging to nearly 27,500 feet, which is considered the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
Colin BrowenHOST
This extreme underwater landscape, combined with complex currents and shifting weather patterns, has long been cited by scientists as a factor in some of the mysterious disappearances associated with the Bermuda Triangle.