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What If the Oceans Drained Through the Mariana Trench?

Nov 19, 2025
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Animated map, initially created by Reddit user @Vinnytsia, compresses hundreds of thousands to millions of years to show coastlines, shelves, and land bridges as ocean water drains through a hypothetical 10-meter opening at Challenger Deep. Read more: https://vividmaps.com/draining-the-ocean/