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Amazing that this battle happened almost within sight of land, and yet the wreck is 4 miles down in one of the deepest parts of the ocean. By Google Maps, the
by nostrademons 6y ago
Amazing that this battle happened almost within sight of land, and yet the wreck is 4 miles down in one of the deepest parts of the ocean. By Google Maps, the Philippine trench is about 20-30 miles offshore from Samar. The slope in that part of the ocean must be extreme, almost a sheer cliff.
- clort 6y agoIts funny because if you think about it, 20 miles along and 4 miles down is only a 5:1 gradient rather than anything like the sheer cliff you are envisaging. The ocean is deep but also wide. I have a chart of the Atlantic which is about 1m square. Although the Atlantic is several miles deep and the chart is only paper, the thickness of the paper is not far off scale..
- buran77 6y agoThese trenches have a slope of ~10-15 degrees on the steep side (and ~5 degrees on the gentle side). So it would go down 1mi for every 4mi further from the shore. To get to 4mi deep it only needs 12mi of horizontal distance in the steepest of cases. Even the Mariana Trench is imagined by most people looking like a canyon (almost vertical walls), when it actually looks more like sloped plains.