Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a submarine trench on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It extends from the Windward Passage at the southeastern tip of Cuba toward Guatemala. The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 900,216 feet (300,072 m), the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. The oceanic trenches are several hundred kilometres long but narrow topographic depressions of the sea floor. ... Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean Sea is a tropical body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ... The Windward Passage marked in red The Windward Passage is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. ...
The Puerto Rico Trench is an oceanic trench located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The trench is associated with a complex transition between the subduction zone to the south along the Lesser Antilles island arc and the major transform fault zone or plate boundary that extends west between Cuba and Hispaniola through the CaymanTrench to the coast of Central America.
The trench is 800 km long and has a maximum a depth of 8,605 meters (28,232 feet) at Milwaukee Deep, which is the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
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