April 9, 2012
#1040: Lakes and Oceans explain
[A Map of lakes and oceans showing the depths of various lakes and ocean attributes.]
Lakes and Oceans Depths and animal/ship/boat lengths are to scale; horizontal distance is not.
Fun Fact: The Edmund Fitzgerald, The Kursk, and The Lusitania all sank in water shallower than they were long.
[Vertical axis of depths, ranging from 1,000 m to 12,000 m.]
{| class=“wikitable”
| Edmund Fitzgerald
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| Lake Superior
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| Lake Michigan
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| Lake Huron
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| Lake Erie
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| Lake Ontario
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| Death Valley
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| Great Slave Lake
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| Crater Lake
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| Loch Ness
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| Lake Baikal
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| Burj Khalifa
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| Kursk
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| Lusitania
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| Aircraft Carrier
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| Titanic
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| Seawise Giant (largest ship ever)
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| Free-diving depth record
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| Scuba record
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| Andrea Gail (probably)
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| Bike tires go flat
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| Pressure at this depth would pop the cork into a champagne bottle
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| Pressure at this depth would force water back up a household faucet
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| Emperor penguin
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| Ohio-class nuclear sub depth limit
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| Typhoon-class nuclear sub depth limit
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| Blue whale
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| Leatherback turtle
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| Deepwater horizion
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| Oil well
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| Dead sea
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| Kola borehole: Soviet project to try to drill through the Earth’s crust to the mantle just to see what would happen. Russians are awesome.
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| Chilean mine
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| Collapse
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| Miner refuge
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| Sperm whales dive this deep. They come up covered in wounds and sucker marks, so presumably there are big squid down here? … Man, we know nothing about the ocean.
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| Mid-ocean ridge
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| Titanic (sunk bow & stern)
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| At this depth, if you shoot a hole in a pressurized scuba tank, instead of air rushing out, water rushes in.
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| Abyssal plain
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| Alvin depth limit
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| David Bowie & Freddie Mercury
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| Puerto Rico Trench
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| Milwaukee Deep
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| Marianas Trench
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| Challenger Deep
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| Mysterious door which James Cameron built his sub to reach and open. He will not say what he found within.
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| The abyss. It’s rude to stare.
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| Mauna Kea, Hawaii (accurate horizontal scale)
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| Marianas trench (accurate horizontal scale)
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| Oil
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