JD Spydo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:55 am
James Y wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:13 pm
TkoK83Spy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:01 pm
The ocean has always blown my mind and terrified me. The fact that we know more about outer space than we do the oceans on our own planet... that's a scary fact to process in my eyes.
I’ve always had a fear of deep, dark water. I’m sure just about everyone does, but ocean (and many lake) depths are mind-boggling.
I heard somewhere that Scotland’s Loch Ness, if it were drained, could supposedly fit 10 times the world’s entire human population in it.
Jim
That's an interesting summation Jim. Because just recently I heard a similar factoid about Lake Baikal in Russia. I heard that Lake Baikal is so deep and holds such a huge volume of water that at least 3% of all the world's fresh water can be found in that lake. Now that was on one of the shows on the Science Channel that I heard that and I've not double checked it yet.
But I've also heard that Lake Baikal has it's own unique ecosystem and that many animals and fish are unique to that lake and are only found at that one location on the entire planet.
Also I've wondered if they have ever determined how deep the Mariana Trench is in the western part of the Pacific Ocean? I've heard estimates of it being over 7 miles deep in places.
Joe,
It’s said that the deepest point in the Mariana Trench is 36,201 feet. Almost 7 miles. If you were floating on the surface and the water suddenly disappeared, and you started falling to the bottom, it would be the same as being dropped from an airliner flying at around its maximum height.
IIRC, Lake Baikal is the oldest, largest, and deepest lake in the world.
As for hagfish, yes, they are very weird-looking creatures. And there are many other bizarre-looking creatures way down there. And IMO, if there are gigantic “sea serpents” and other unclassified sea creatures, which I believe there are, they probably don’t even live at the maximum extreme depths, due to the extreme pressure.
Jim