The Deepwater Horizon well is nearly a mile deep in water. It extends 3.5 miles. It’s hard to imagine these depths of the ocean though since most of us have never gone further than twenty feet below. The New York Times’ Bill Marsh provides some context. The Titanic rests 2.4 miles down, while in 1960, a U.S. Navy submersible descended to the deepest known ocean floor, about 7 miles into the darkness. [Thanks, Peter]
Context to underwater depths
The ocean is frighteningly deep. Graphics like this are why I don’t swim in it. Having my legs dangle over 7 miles of darkness, and we only what exists in maybe 1% of it. Creepy.
I think this graphic that I just saw today is better.
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/infographic-tallest-mountain-to-deepest-ocean-trench-0249/
Same information but more detail and better sense of scale.
I dont go in the ocean because the fish have sex in there.
i’d stay from hotels then.
Wait – fish have sex in hotels too?
in the good ones.
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