George McKissick* age 13 of Philadelphia

What is the deepest part of the Atlantic?

So far as we know, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is around the islands of the West Indies. A large, deep area has been discovered off the coast of Puerto Rico. It is called the Brownson Deep.

There are still deeper hollows within this great hole in the coean floor The deepest pit so far discovered has been named the Milwaukee Trench. This hole in the ocean floor is 30,246 feet, or about five and three‑quarter miles below the waves of the stormy Atlantic,

By no means all of the ocean floor has been tested for depth. Only in the past few years have we been able to do the, job easily. Modern fathometers measure ocean depths with echoes, Naturally  we would expect to find even deeper holes in the Pacific Ocean, for this ocean has a greater average depth than the Atlantic. The deepest spots in the ocean so far discovered are in the Pacific, One of these trenches in the ocean floor is six and a half .miles below the surface of the sea.