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"located at a depth of about 1,350 feet (411 meters) and was captured in sonar imagery...The imagery revealed the ship measured 33 feet (10 meters) long." That
by pcurve 4y ago
"located at a depth of about 1,350 feet (411 meters) and was captured in sonar imagery...The imagery revealed the ship measured 33 feet (10 meters) long."
That's a pretty deep lake..
- maria2 4y agoThat is really deep. Lake Superior’s deepest point is only 1,332 feet.
- AndrewOMartin 4y agoLake Inferior, more like.
- vikingerik 4y agoThe serious answer is that Lake Superior is named not for its area or volume, but for its upper altitude / upstream position relative to the other lakes.
- _whiteCaps_ 4y agoInteresting! There's a few lakes in BC that are 400m+, and Quesnel Lake is 511m (1677'). I guess I had assumed that Superior was deep as well.
- antiterra 4y agoIt is! Interestingly, it’s only the fourth deepest lake in Norway. It’s deeper than Lake Superior both in mean and maximum depth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_depth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_depth
- lalalandland 4y agoA little off topic: Do anybody know of a list of biggest lake per country?
- trystero 4y agoGood use case for a Wikidata query: https://w.wiki/66oN https://w.wiki/66oN
- fulltimeloser 4y agoThanks, I guess. What a bewildering site that was. Its certainly a very obtuse and hard to use query tool
- moffkalast 4y agoTurns out that the so named lake is in fact not superior by depth.
- gpm 4y agoIf anyone is wondering why it's called that In the 17th century, the first French explorers approached the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron; they referred to their discovery as le lac supérieur (the upper lake, i.e. above Lake Huron). Some 17th-century Jesuit missionaries referred to it as Lac Tracy (for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy).[16] After taking control of the region from the French in the 1760s following their defeat in the French and Indian War, the British anglicized the lake's name to Superior, "on account of its being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent".[17] (wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior) It is still the largest lake by surface area. While we're at it, Ontario used to be "Upper Canada" (from the POV of the Saint Lawrence river) and Quebec "Lower Canada". I.e. the naming scheme is even somewhat consistent.
- mik1998 4y agoStrictly speaking, the Kaspian Sea is the largest lake by surface area in the world (by almost 300 000km^2). Lake Superior is only the largest freshwater lake.
- cgh 4y agoCool list, thanks. We were camped near Seton Lake this summer as it's somewhat nearby and I had no idea that it's apparently the 24th deepest lake in the world. The things you learn on here.
- davidw 4y agoI live a few hours from Crater Lake, the deepest one in the US. Beautiful spot to visit - just drive south on 97 and take a right when the sign indicates Crater Lake.
- tilt_error 4y agoNo. 24 Lake Tinn is where the German production of heavy water was sunk in an operation during WWII.
- dopamean 4y agoSeriously. That got me curious so I looked it up and the deepest lake in the world is in Sibera and it's over a mile deep...
- xenospn 4y agoYup - Lake Baikal. Holds about 20% of the world’s fresh water.
- plicense 4y ago20% of world's surface fresh water.
- capableweb 4y ago> Surface water is water located on top of land forming terrestrial (inland) waterbodies, and may also be referred to as blue water, opposed to the seawater and waterbodies like the ocean. You made it sound like "surface water" is literally just counting water close to the surface of the body of water, but it's basically any lake/river, so still impressive. > Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water, more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. It is also the world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms), and the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years.
- jwilber 4y agoI don’t think they made it sound like that, they just used the word, if you don’t know the definition it’s on you?
- deltarholamda 4y agoThey are distinguishing between water located on the surface and the water that is located in the hollow at the center of the Earth, where King Kong and dinosaurs live on to this day.
- tpudlik 4y agoYeah! Its deepest point is only 10 m shallower than the deepest point of the Baltic Sea!