Diving Records from the "Ocean Planet" Exhibition

                                                         feet      meters
free dive (Francisco Ferreras)............................417         127
deepest alga..............................................900         274
ray of light from the sun perceptive to the human eye...1,600         500
military submarine......................................2,950         900
bathysphere.............................................3,000         914
Johnson Sea Link (four-person submersible)..............3,000         914
sperm whale.............................................3,773       1,150
northern elephant seal..................................4,921       1,500
RMS Titanic's final resting place......................12,500       3,810
Alvin (three-person submersible).......................14,763       4,500
octopus................................................16,404       5,000
sponge.................................................18,500       5,639
Jason (robotic submarine)..............................19,685       6,000
Shinkai (three-person submersible).....................21,414       6,527
deepest recorded fish..................................27,460       8,370
amphipod (crab relative)...............................32,199       9,789
deepest spot on earth..................................35,802      10,912

HOW DEEP can they go?

 Ocean Planet Exhibition Floorplan

 

 
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Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)