Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean
!The Antarctic Ocean, as delineated by the draft 4th edition of the [International Hydrographic Organization's Limits of Oceans and Seas (2002)](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/LocationSouthernOcean.svg/500px-LocationSouthernOcean.svg.png)
Southern Ocean
!A general delineation of the [Antarctic Convergence, sometimes used by scientists as the demarcation of the Southern Ocean](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Antarctica-Region.png/500px-Antarctica-Region.png)
Southern Ocean
The maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using the definition that it lies south of 60th parallel, was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in early February 2019. The expedition's multibeam sonar team identified the deepest point at 60° 28' 46"S, 025° 32' 32"W, with a depth of 7,434 metres (24,390 ft). The expedition leader and chief submersible pilot, Victor Vescovo, has proposed naming this deepest point the "Factorian Deep", based on the name of the crewed submersible DSV Limiting Factor, in which he successfully visited the bottom for the first time on February 3, 2019.
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