Please write neatly and make it readable. Do not type. At a depth of 10.9 km, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench of the Pacific Ocean is  the deepest site in any ocean. Yet, in 1960, Donald Walsh and Jacques Piccard reached the  Challenger Deep in the bathyscaph Trieste. Assuming that seawater has a uniform density of  1024 kg/m3,   a. approximate the hydrostatic pressure (in atmospheres) that the Trieste had to  withstand.  b. What is the absolute pressure on that depth (in kPa(a))?

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At a depth of 10.9 km, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench of the Pacific Ocean is  the deepest site in any ocean. Yet, in 1960, Donald Walsh and Jacques Piccard reached the  Challenger Deep in the bathyscaph Trieste. Assuming that seawater has a uniform density of  1024 kg/m3,  

a. approximate the hydrostatic pressure (in atmospheres) that the Trieste had to  withstand. 

b. What is the absolute pressure on that depth (in kPa(a))?

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