The Deep-Dive Mindmap is a mindmap structure we were given to help kickstart our research and get us to explore avenues we had not considered. The mindmap is made up of 15 headings, of which I add subheadings made up of potential research points. Not every heading was relevent to my subject, but I was able to utilise most of them to find new areas to research:

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Characters

• Notable People:

  • James Cameron

  • HMS Challenger (1865)

  • The crew of the Trieste (1960)

• Animals

• Ancient Trenches/Trenches that collapsed

  • Farallon Trench etc.

 

Locations

Pacific Ocean

“Ring of Fire”

Pacific Plate

Phillipine Sea Plate

Nazca Plate

Atlantic Ocean

North American Plate

 

Movement

• Tectonic Shift

  • Subduction

• What happens when they collapse?

 

 

Technology

• Submarines

• Sonar

• Radar

• Lead Lines/Depth Sounding

 

 

Books

• Oceans, Ridges and Trenches - Peter Aleshire 

• Creatures of the Deep: In search of the sea's 'monsters' and the world they live - Erich Hoyt

• Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth - Naomi Oreskes

 

Historical

• Formation

• Discovery by HMS Challenger

• First expedition by the Trieste

 

Films

• Documentaries

• Challenger Deep - James Cameron

• David Attenborough

 

Videos

• Can Seaweed Save the World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwaBkjUqOEo

 

Colour

• Complete darkness - No light

• Lots of browns and beige

• Animals are mainly translucent

 

Structures(Hierarchy) 

• Structure of the trench itself

• Scale of deepest to shallowest, widest to thinnest etc