Smell the Ocean
!810 Springhill Drive v2e1p9 Kamloops, BC, Canada

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Miscellaneous Marine Matters Photo of a glacier. The ocean is deeper than Mount Everest, at 8,850 meters (29,000 feet), is tall. In 1960 the U.S. Navy, using Auguste Piccard's bathyscaph "Trieste," reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench, 10,900 meters (35,800 feet) down. At that depth, the temperature is always just above freezing, the pressure is more than 1000 times what it is on the surface, and many bottom-dwelling fish and invertebrates call it home!... Under the ocean, you can find many mountain ranges. One large Antarctic iceberg could supply all of Los Angeles' water supply for 5 years! Question: Who "cooked up" the most accurate navigational charts of the 18th century? [Answer: Captain James Cook] If you were an alien landing on Earth, you would have about a 60% chance of landing out of sight of land. You float better in the Mediterranean Sea than in the waters off Santa Monica because the Mediterranean is saltier and denser. Seven million years ago, when geological forces lifted the Straits of Gibraltar and blocked the flow of Atlantic Ocean water into the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean Basin was completely dry! And in some places its bed lies 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) below sea level. When the Straits of Gibraltar dropped to today's level, what may have been the Earth's grandest waterfall may have run for 1,000 years, until the sea was full. Image of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Europa, a moon of Jupiter just a bit smaller than our Earth's moon, may have a world-wide ocean 100 kilometers (60 miles) deep covered with ice. Such an ocean might contain more liquid water than all the Earth's oceans combined! The Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia can be seen from the moon! Dissolved gold is found in the water of all oceans (a very small amount, of course, but it is still there).