How Deep Is Deep?
The 62-year-old photographer, along with an A-team of biologists, oceanographers, and two of Jacques Cousteau’s grandchildren, will venture to the Mariana Trench, just off the coast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. There they will drop a remotely operated camera system 7 miles down to the bottom of the deepest spot on Earth.
Well worth checking out. Some interesting trivia the article offers:
220 feet: Depth at which compressed air becomes toxic and can cause seizures in divers.
558 feet: Only two people have held their breath to this depth: Audrey Mestre, who died in 2002 when her equipment failed; and her husband, Pipin Ferreras, who tied her unofficial dive record one year later.
1,010 feet: Scuba-diving record set by Brit diver John Bennett in 2001.
1,969 feet: Maximum diving depth of nuclear-powered attack subs.
5,187 feet: Maximum diving depth of the elephant seal.
12,434 feet: Average ocean depth.
12,500 feet: Depth of the wreck of the Titanic discovered by a US-French team headed by Woods Hole researcher Robert Ballard in 1985.
36,201 feet: Deepest recorded ocean depth, taken by the Soviet submersible Vityaz in 1957.
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