SCUBA maximum depth for recreational SCUBA Divers

How Deep is the Ocean?

Ever wonder, how deep is the ocean?  This video answers that really well. Then we’ll provide some info about Mariana Trench.

How deep is the ocean?

Picture Mount Everest upside down…and that’ll get you partially the way there. The below video explains.

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40m is the maximum depth for recreational SCUBA Divers
maximum depth for recreational SCUBA Divers

The ocean is mind-numbingly deep – the ocean is 14,000 feet deep.

Here’s a great info-graphic, with some highlights below.Enjoy!

The average depth of the ocean is 4267 meters
The average depth of the ocean is 4267 meters
Blue Whales can dive down to 500 meters deep.
Blue Whales can dive down to 500 meters deep.

The Titanic is currently 12,500 feet down

Mount Everest is 8850 meters, and the ocean goes even deeper
Mount Everest is 8850 meters, and the ocean goes even deeper
How deep is the ocean? 11,034 meters deep. That's the bottom of the Mariana Trench
The ocean goes 11,034 meters deep. That’s the bottom of the Mariana Trench

 Mariana Trench

James Cameron visited the top of the Mariana Trench, an amazing 7 miles underwater that  broke a record! In the Bloomberg article they mentioned he risked implosion. wow.

He spent several million dollars on the sub, called Deepsea Challenger, which needed to withstand pressures of at least eight tons per square inch.

The feat equaled the 1960 record set by Don Walsh and the late Jacques Piccard, and the movie director became the first to solo to the earth’s deepest point.

Video of the experience can be found at Nat Geo.

The Marianas Trench is located just northeast of Indonesia.

The world’s deepest point in the oceans is the Challenger Deep which is found within the Marianas Trench. The Marianas Trench is a depression (deep cracks) in the floor of the western Pacific Ocean. Marianas Trench is formed (as other ocean trenches) as a result of the oceanic plate being pushed against a continental plate whereby causing the oceanic plate to pushed downward making deep fissure. Its location is east of the Mariana Islands and is 1,554 miles long and averages 44 miles wide (see diagrams below). The Marianas Trench depth is 36,200 feet (11,033 m or 11.03 km).

I certainly haven’t gone diving this far! However, I’ve had some awesome diving experiences. I’ve gone diving with sharks without a cage, thresher sharks, and swimming with whale sharks.

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