Saturday, June 30, 2018
How deep the ocean really is
The coolest analogy I have heard is that the trench is roughly as deep as a commercial airliner flies high. That gives you some perspective.
Bathyscaphe Trieste
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe, which with its crew of two reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft), in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific. On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard (son of the boat's designer Auguste Piccard) and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieved the goal of Project Nekton.
Trieste was the first manned vessel to have reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep.
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This is so cool Linda! Thanks for sharing, and I hope you don't mind if I do the same, of course with a shout out to you.
ReplyDeleteThat is deep. So much we haven't yet seen.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda, for sharing these unbelievable ocean depth facts with us.
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