We all know that the ocean is deep, heck we’ve only managed to explore just five percent of the world ocean.
Yes, there is only one ocean although we split it up for geographical reasons and to help us navigate our planet – that’s why we’ve got the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean.
But I digress.
Anyway, a mind-blowing video has been created detailing the sheer scale of ocean depth and people aren’t liking it – I mean when you hear of ‘death pools’ discovered on the floor of the Red Sea, you can understand why there 95 percent of the ocean is yet to be explored.
Okay, obviously the potential that something scary lurks in the deepest darkest parts of the ocean isn’t what is preventing mankind from exploring just shy of 70 percent of the planet – but, I’m sure it won’t help.
The sheer size of the ocean is mind-boggling, simultaneously commanding both awe and fear.
There are a lot of numbers thrown around about just how enormous the ocean actually is. These sound impressive by themselves, but it’s something else entirely to see a visualisation of the vasts depths of the sea.
A YouTube video from MetaBallStudios shows the sheer scale of the deep ocean.
Starting out in the shallows, it showcases the average and maximum depths of various oceans around the world, as well as adding in landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Burj Khalifa for scale.
It gives a chilling idea of just how big the ocean truly is. It includes the deepest scuba dive by Ahmed Gabr at 332 metres below the surface.
It also shows off SAPEI, the deepest submarine cable, at around 1600m down.
There is also the average depths of each ocean and sea, with the Atlantic Ocean coming in at around 3646m on average, with the wreck of the Titanic lying on the sea floor 3700m below the surface.
You can also see the point at which Mount Everest would be completely engulfed by the ocean.
Finally, we reach the very deepest point in the ocean.
This is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is located in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan. The deepest point, known as Challenger Deep, is around 11,000m below the surface.
This means that the peak of Mount Everest would still be 2km underwater if it were placed in the trench.
By volume alone, the deep ocean is by far the biggest inhabitable space on the planet, and it’s still largely unknown.
It’s not just the scale, but the sheer oddity of many of the things found down there.
Hydrothermal vents spew out water infused with chemicals at hundreds of degrees, and can even sustain life which is independent of the sun’s energy.
There are even theories that chemical soups from such deep sea vents may even have laid the chemical foundations of life as we now know it to begin its long development.
Primordial soup formed in the deep ocean, and now I have to pay rent every month.
