The Mariana trench is the deepest known part of the ocean at over 11,000 metres. The graphic below shows just how scarily deep that is! Amazingly, a manned descent was actually achieved in 1960, using the steampunk-sounding Bathyscaphe Trieste
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I love visualisations like this.
wow, I used to live in Guam which is not far from this. Impressive!
Everest is 29 thousand feet, or 8.8km, so this trench is quite a bit deeper than the highest mountain. Could we see a contour map showing the shape of the ocean floor and adjacent land?
Wow! It seems we know more about Mars than we actually know about our own oceans. The only 10% being mapped really surprises me. I agree with John Bates – the visualization is great, and put things in perspective. PS. The Piggynap banner is one of the best I’ve seen around on the WEB
Can we have the same scale for the center of the earth?
Can you even imagine how much we don’t know at all? Really life is to big for us to see what at the top or better yet the bottom…..
That is absolutely fantastic, I cant image being that deep.
just imagine what exists down there, both frightening and exciting at the same time
If you look real close at the bottom you can see a bunch of lawyers feeding!
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Although a blue whale feeds at a depth of less than 330 feet, it can dive up to 1640 feet. One dive lasts for 10 to 20 minutes.
Not deep enough to keep people from spoiling it, alas.
Far to deep for people to spoil it, no manmade structure that we have at the moment will be able to stay down there for more than a few weeks before being completely crushed.
Wow!
This could almost be interesting for the rest of the world if you used SI units that we can understood.
The 10% of the ocean floor figure needs a little explanation. We have nearly 100% of the seafloor mapped through satellite altimetry measurements of changes in sea surface height due to gravity (Sandwell and Smith, 1997), but the resolution is on the order of 10 km (you can’t see any features smaller than 10 km). Only ~10% is mapped on a finer scale of 100′s of meters (ship-mounted sonar) to as fine as less than a cm (ROV-mounted sonar).
This makes me take a different perspective on the height of my eyes above the floor.
Pressure gets insanely high down there, but its about half what is stated (should be about 8,000 psi @ 20,000 feet).
So cool. Wish it also had the average depth of the oceans, and also an average amount of fishing line on a fisherman’s reel.
So glad we can’t spoil it. Yet. Tho I’m sure we’ll find a way to make it as disgustingly DEAD as everything else we’re killing, it will at least take a while.
Very interesting. The black dot of a 6 foot + person with respect to the whole shows how truly small we are.
why have you used these cute “Ft” and psi units ?
You must be from one of the two least advanced (non metric) countries in the world, Liberia or the USA.
The perfect place to drop nuclear waste/weapons. In 100,000 years it would be recycled under the earths crust.
wierd how deep the water goes. If fangtooths live on that depth, I would not want to see the creatures living on the deepest end of it. Maybe this is where the lockness and mermaids are hiding.
Wow thats some fishing hole imagine the size of the fishing line on the reel.Awesome stuff.
Love the tag on the bottom of the picture lol
Inches, feet..now, what does that make in hogheads??
Richard Pease on November 30, 2010 2:00 pm
why have you used these cute “Ft” and psi units ?
You must be from one of the two least advanced (non metric) countries in the world, Liberia or the USA.
^^^ how vain, he must be insecure and his metric units make him feel confident haha.
So to the people who are complaining about him using feet and psi. I bet most people here know the metric scale along with the non metric scale ( or at least they know how to google conversions). So stop bitching and go learn it or you could always use some form of search engine on the magic internet to find conversion tables.
Just to point out, 2 people have been to the bottom.
Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh
great. very interesting.
Ive heard that if you drop acme thingy from bugs bunny (i forget what its called) it will burst into peices before it hits the bottom
Even with the visualization it is still hard to imagine its depth. I agree that I would love to see more visualizations like this.
Richard Pease,
Your argument that the US is less advanced has no logical basis which would make it valid. Yes, the US uses the English system of measurement. Also, I admit that the English system is horrible and makes no sense whatsoever. HOWEVER, The USA declared it’s independence in 1776. At this point, they were somewhat separated, simply by geography. The Metric system was first adopted by France in 1791. By the time there was a need for the US to share a standard system with Europe, we were established enough that it was difficult to switch. Since then, it has become more and more impossible to switch. Therefore, the US is in fact TOO advanced to make a switch to the metric system.
Also, it’s pretty hard to believe that somebody who is unable to type “6 ft in m” into Google is claiming that a world power isn’t advanced.
Think before you type.
I really enjoy this visualization, and I would love to see more!
Here’s the original image, without the stupid compression: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=47264
Mitch: Re: ” peices”, “i” before “e” except after “c”.
Michael:
Lawyers are actually feeding on a small hill to get energy sufficient to defend clients who are at the real bottom!
Fucking awesome!
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Hey RJ: You’re a “fag”. That’s “F” before “A” before “G”.
By the way your rule is false. Explain to me the spelling of the word “weird”? Or “sleigh”? Or “Neighbor”? There are no exceptions, it is not a rule.
Also, your joke wasn’t funny.
how long would it take for one of Galileo’s cannonballs to sink to the bottom? Is gravity affected by that incredible pressure?
There’s more to the rhyme.
You apparently never saw Charlie Brown.
“I before E except after C unless it sounds like A in neighbor or weigh”
This is a really cool graphic.
And people need to stop being so pessimistic about it being ruined. Yeah, it might happen but probably not in your life time.
All talk of feet and psi aside. This is a fantastic pedagogical tool for making something very hard to comprehend very accesible.
Deep stuff! Amazing, this place we call home.
Great visualisation.
Weird that the /best/ countries in the world /yeah right/ can’t find a simple conversion table. or better yet; in our fast paced world, a converter that can do the tedious calculations, that they are too good for, for them.
thats deep!
1 foot = 0.3048 meters. Simple math and google are your friends.
I thought this was great!
The comments on this are deeper than the deepest known point in the ocean. Wow.
> Can we have the same scale for the center of the earth?
That’s a lot of scrolling. The center of the earth is approximately 581 times deeper.
I wonder if something lives at 36,000 feet O.O
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my dad told me he used to dive down that far while holding his breath. He showed me many rocks he fetched up.
The ocean(s) is/are the 2nd last bastion of hope next to space – this scale (If accurate) is awesome!
I bet that there are alien cities in the sea, that is why ufo go directly to the seas.
Imagine having an orgy with Ava Devine and Vicky Vette at the bottom of that! Crazy!
Jon, imagine your rotting corpse slowly floating down with all the fish nibbling bits of your decomposing flesh. You would be a skelly when you hit the bottom
Sure is a fucking long way down imagine poor old Jon down there having a fucking orgy with a giant octpussyhe would have more tentacles up his ass than he has cocks up his ass at the gay club
Hi I don’t really like cocks up my ass I prefer them in my mouth !
@Joe: It’s actually i before e except after c, or when sounded as a as in neighbor and weigh… And that’s just a general rule; there are MANY exceptions to it (weird is one of them).
Dan clear off mate, get yerself a girlfriend or summat no one gives a fuck
Gotta love when the grammar police come on a comment board wanting to correct people’s mistakes for them. They haven’t gotten the memo that nobody else cares.. lol
I wonder if the metric vs ft guy marches around doing the goose-step with a big M on his shirt
Love the visuals. Allows my tiny, 1.5 dimensional brain to wrap around these types of things. Thx to whoever shared this
Thanks for your comments Jake, I already have a girlfriend and I will show her what you wrote when we settle down tonight to do our stamp album together. And the other day I kissed her on the lips so I know all about the ” sex thing ” so please leave me alone when I try to help people with their spelling.
listen Dan sorry about picking you up on the correction thing , didn’t mean to be nasty. Oh and by the way there’s more to the sex thing than kissing your girl. Let me give you an idea that tube like thing that you piss with, it hangs down between your legs well you take it and rub it til it gets hard then lift your girlfriends dress up and underneath her panties you will find a slit. Now push your cock into that slit and the rest ” cums ” naturally, hope that helps.
It’s tagged as “creepy”.
Right on, folks!
Heres one for you… If only 10% of the ocean has been mapped… how do they know its only 10%? An estimate? Most likely… but how you can you make an estimate like that if you believe only 10% of the ocean is mapped? In reality you have no fucking idea how much ocean there is. Some people on this earth who claim to be smart and have the answers, are truly just fucking idiots.
Thanks Desmond that’s a good point, you made me laugh there you sexy cunt, I used to have a boy friend called Desmond but I dumped him on account of his tiny willie.
try typing in “the earth top to bottom”
and to think of this in comparison to the universe…
see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
A perfect place to hide a body
Fantastic visualization!
@Desmond
Don’t call someone a “fucking idiot” when you know less about what your talking about then they do.
I’m not sure if 10% is an accurate figure, nor do i care, but it can be very easily measured as such.
Take a map of the world. Use simple math to figure how much of the earth is covered in water (or use google.) Now take the figure for how much of the ocean has already been mapped. (by the way, “mapping” the ocean really just requires you to map the ocean floor, as everything above it is (believe it or not) water.
Now do simple math to figure out how much of the ocean floor has been mapped in comparison to how much of the earth is covered by the ocean.
Some people on this earth who claim to be smart and have the answers, truly do. Try listening to them sometime.
photoshopped!!
You make me sick… This whole thing is disgusting!
wait? Oh crap. Where he hell am I? One second i’m seeing a picture of a girl taking it from a bottlenose dolphin and the next i’m here? This internet is weird.
Ese wey es puto le va al America!
Anything that is compressible by these pressures will be … but we could still trash the place. And, if we don’t actually trigger the 6th great extinction event, we probably will.
I’m betting on the extinction getting here first, though.
A great visualisation. Thanks for sharing.
I zoomed my browser out all the way, and I still couldn’t fit it all on the screen (but it does help even more to give a good idea on how deep it is – great job!)
Apparently, at the bottom of the ocean lies a box ad and a bunch of comments.
anybody notice the difference in scale of the 6ft human and the 350ft mark?
Beautiful comparison. and I also had the same observation as that by Ryan.
And this is why I’m afraid of the ocean!!!
i read yesterday the pacific ocean covers 63,800,000 sq. miles surface
I’m pretty sure you forgot Cthulhu.
If you can’t convert feet or psi then you shouldn’t be allowed to use a pc. Go crawl back under a rock and stay there.
I’m pretty sure… Now, I’m just spitballin’ here… That no matter how hard we try, the bottom of the Marianas Trench will not be “truly” discovered any time soon. /next 30-50 years/ Of course, this is only an opinion/estimate, and probably not anywhere close to accurate.
Wow, I’m very impressed, I can’t even imagine how did somebody went that deep or how do they know all that…
Does anybody know whether or not the yellow submarine has been to theses tremendous depths? Or flipper?
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such a good understanding of everything about malaria
Hey Mitch, R.J. Anderson, and Joe: Chill, man!! It’s really no big deal how you spell something as long as you convey your meaning. It is “i” before “e”, except after “c”, or when sounded like “a” as in neighbor and weigh, and it is NOT a hard and steadfast rule; however, it applies to the majority of cases. It is only a general purpose rule that applies in most cases because there are exceptions to this rule. Now, as far as the bottom of the ocean goes: been there, done that. Who wants to go there again!
Exploring the Marianas Trench has to be the ultimate ‘trip’ on this Planet
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fantastic pictures
Not to harp on the imperial vs. metric system in the US, but technically the metric standards are the standards for measurement. Mendenhall Order; Google it.
The blue whale may be the most impressive creature alive today but the cuviers beaked whale has been known to dive to over 6000 ft!!!!
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