contrary to popular belief, BBM does not stand for 'BlackBerry Messenger'; it bears a slightly more disturbing meaning. BBM is actually short for 'Big Black Meat', or so some Twitter users seem to think (one example being @BigBlackMeatMan). The abbrevaition is almost always used with the name Darelle, for reasons unknown. One thing is for sure, and it's that this word causes great confusion in the Twitterverse.
By Jennifer Kennedy. The Mariana Trench (also called the Marianas Trench) is the deepest part of the ocean. This trench lies in an area where two of the Earth's plates-the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate-come together. The Pacific plate dives under the Philippine plate, which also partially gets pulled along (read more about this collision under oceanic-oceanic convergence here).
Challenger II returned to the spot with an echo-sounder and measured a depth of nearly 7 miles (11 kilometers). The majority of the Mariana Trench is now a U.S. protected zone as part of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, established by President George W. Bush in 2009. Permits for research in the monument, including in the Sirena Deep, have been secured from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.