Challenger Deep vs. Midnight Zone: The Deepest Point Is Not a Zone

No. The deepest point in the Pacific Ocean (and on Earth) is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (~10,925 m / 35,843 ft). The midnight zone (bathypelagic zone) is a depth layer between 1,000–4,000 m—not a location.

Ocean Depth Zones

• Sunlight (epipelagic): 0–200 m
• Twilight (mesopelagic): 200–1,000 m
• Midnight (bathypelagic): 1,000–4,000 m — no sunlight, bioluminescence dominates
• Abyssal (abyssopelagic): 4,000–6,000 m
• Hadal (hadalpelagic): 6,000–11,000 m — trenches only

Challenger Deep is in the hadal zone. The midnight zone lies thousands of meters above it. Different categories: one is a point, the other a global layer.