The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think

This dot is the size of an average human. This slightly larger dot is the size of an elephant. And this is the size of the largest ship ever built, the knock Nevis. With that in mind, let’s start going underwater and see what we find out.

The first milestone is at 40 meters below the surface, which is the maximum depth allowed for recreational scuba diving. A little further down at 93 meters is where the wreck of the Lusitania was discovered, which is interesting because the Lusitania itself is 240 meters long, which means that it sunk in water swallow than it is long. So if the ship was standing on its stern or bow, it would be sticking out of the water.

Just slightly deeper than that’ at 100 meters is where diving can become seriously fatal if you are not careful because of decompression sickness.

But that didn’t stop a man named Herbert Nitsch to accomplish the free diving world record as a depth of 214 meters. This guy swam to this level with just one single breath.

But a little further down at 332 meters, we have to scuba driving world record which was accomplished by another man named Ahmed Gabr

If he has seam down another 111 meters then he would have reached the height of the empire state building if it was submerged underwater and a bit further than that at feet 500 meters below the surface, we arrived the maximum dive depth of blue whales, the largest creatures on the planet and also the limit of the US Seawolf class in nuclear submarine.

At 535 meters we can witness the maximum dive depth of Emperor penguins. And this is one we must bring up the intensity of water pressure. At this level below the surface, the water pressure exerted on a person or the penguins would be roughly equivalent to a polar bear standing on the quarter.

So further down the depth of at 830 meters would be the height of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.

Once we hit 1000 meters below the surface, we began to enter the scary zone. Lights from the surface can no longer reach beyond this point, so the rest of the ocean below is shrouded in permanent darkness.

On top of that, the water pressure you will experience at this point would be about the same as if you were standing on the surface of the planet Venus, meaning that you would die very quickly. You could also meet the Giant Squid at this sea level if the water pressure didn’t already kill you.

At 1280 meters we reach the maximum depth dived to by the Leatherback sea turtle.

And further down at 1820 meters we would reach the deepest part of the Grand Canyon where it to be underwater with us.

Down at 2000 meters, we start to encounter some of the more terrifying see creatures like the ominously named Black dragonsih, A carnivorous beast with a stomach that doesn’t allow lights to be emitted through it. Meaning that since we are in total darkness on the water at this point, the only way you would ever see this thing is with a flashlight.

A little further down at 2250 meters we will reach the maximum depth dived to by both Sperm whales and very frightening Colossal squid. Sperm Whales often have sucker marks and scars left on the bodies from battles with the colossal squid that likely take place at these incredible depth.

The squids themselves can grow to be 14 meters long and weight up to 750 kg with eyes the size of a dinner plate and razor-sharp sickles in the middle of their tentacles.

So yeah, good luck with that down there.

Way further down at 3800 meters we can find the wreck of the RMS Titanic.