This Incredible Animation Shows How Deep The Ocean Really Is

just how deep does the ocean go if he took the highest point on land and submerged it you would still have more than a mile between you in the deepest point in the oceans the oceans Harbor ninety-nine percent of all living space on earth and have enough water to fill a bathtub that's 685 miles long on each side for scale here's a human and here's a blue whale the largest animal on earth blue whales usually hunt at depths of around 330 feet within the well-lit zone of the ocean deeper down at 700 feet the USS triton became the first submarine to circumnavigate the earth in 1960 at 831 feet we reached the deepest free dive in recorded history down here the pressure is 26 times greater than at the surface which would crush most human lungs but whales manage it diming to a max depth of 1640 feet where they hunt giant squid at 2,400 feet we reached the danger zone for modern nuclear attack submarines any deeper in the submarines hull would implode 2722 feet down is where the tip of the world's tallest building the Burj Kalifa would reach a little farther at 3,280 feet were deep enough that sunlight can't reach us we've now entered the midnight zone many animals down here can't see like these eyeless shrimp at 7,500 feet who thrive near scalding hot underwater volcanoes at this depth temperatures are just a few degrees above freezing but the waters around hydrothermal vents can heat up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit 9800 16 feet is the deepest any mammal has been recorded swimming the quv air beaked whale but not even the qvr beaked whale could explore the RMS Titanic which rests at a staggering depth of 12,500 feet the pressure is now 378 times greater than at the surface yet you can still find sea life like the fangtooth hagfish and Dumbo octopus the deepest living octopus on earth at 20,000 feet is the Hadassah an area designated for the oceans deepest trenches like the Mariana Trench if he tipped Mount Everest into the Mariana Trench its summit would reach down to 29,029 feet that still doesn't compare to the two deepest crewed missions in history in 2012 director James Cameron descended to 35,000 756 feet for the deep-sea challenger mission but Cameron didn't quite break the record which was set by oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960 Picard and wash descended to the lowest point on earth challenger deep at a record 35,000 797 feet below the surface since then scientists have sent half a dozen unmanned submersibles to explore challenger deep including Keiko which collected over 350 species off the seafloor between 1995 in 2003 but scientists estimate there are potentially thousands of marine species we have yet to discover humans have explored an estimated five to ten percent of Earth's oceans we've only just begun to understand the deep dark world that flows beneath us

Channel: Tech Insider

Views: 53,747,730

Rating: 4.8449717 out of 5

Keywords: Tech Insider, TI, Tech, Science, Innovation, Digital culture, Design, Technology, Ocean, Marine biology, Deep sea, Submarine, Ocean floor, Ocean depth, Deep sea diving

Id: UwVNkfCov1k

Length: 3min 29sec (209 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 03 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/CaptainKulcha]

The oceans have enough water to fill a bathtub 685 miles long on each side

I'm pretty sure they have a lot more water than that...

[u/hammedhaaret]

informative but pretty bad drawings... that is a humpback whale in the thumbnail, not bluewhale, and that nuclear submarine was an old german WWII sub

[u/Staross]

imperial units... I have no idea how deep the ocean is.

[u/divine_Bovine]

I wonder why James Cameron didn't break the record depth set by Piccard and Walsh. He was only 40 ft away from it.

[u/Fafnerd]

For me this is something that should be in metrics and not feet...

[u/ibumetiins]

The oceans harbor 99% of all living space on Earth

I guess I'm not sure what living space means? Because only 70% of earth is covered in water.

[u/mozgotrah]

Metric please?

[u/azdarksonal]

At what depth could one find Adele?

[u/bbp84]

36,000 feet is 6.8 miles. That's deep, man.