Water covers nearly three quarters of the earth's surface where 97.5 percent is in the seas and oceans. The deep ocean and sea is a world in itself where some of the most diverse life on Earth can be found. This environment is an alien world to those living on land. The list below provides the measurement (in feet and meters) for the deepest depths of the ocean and sea. So, after reading this article you should be able to tell the depths of the earth's deepest oceans.

Ocean and Sea	Depth in feet (ft) and meters (m)
Pacific Ocean	35,827 ft or 10,924 meters
Atlantic Ocean	30,246 ft or 9,219 meters
Indian Ocean	24,460 ft or 7,455 meters
Caribbean Sea	22,788 ft or 6,946 meters
Arctic Ocean	18,456 ft or 5,625 meters
South China Sea	16,456 ft or 5,016 meters
Bering Sea	15,659 ft or 4,773 meters
Mediterranean Sea	15,197 ft or 4,632 meters
Gulf of Mexico	12,425 ft or 3,787 meters
Japan Sea	12,276 ft or 3,742 meters

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