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What does water "feel" like at that depth? There is a lot of weight felt I guess from the pressure, but is it thicker to swim through in some sense?
by bmitc 4y ago
What does water "feel" like at that depth? There is a lot of weight felt I guess from the pressure, but is it thicker to swim through in some sense?
- RicoElectrico 4y agoWater is incompressible, so I think it should behave similarly. Even viscosity remains within a few precent [1] (Mariana Trench is around 100 MPa) [1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/absolute-dynamic-viscosity-water-d_575.html https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/absolute-dynamic-viscosit...
- bmitc 4y agoInteresting. Thanks! Upon doing some searching it seems that the water at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is just 5% more dense. I didn't realize that water was that resistant to being compressed.
- daveslash 4y agoMost fluids are pretty resistant to compression. That's what makes them so good for hydraulics, for example brake lines, etc.... by putting fluid in a tube, you can apply pressure at one end and bend it around all kinds of crazy corners and curves and get the same pressure applied on the other end.
- sixQuarks 4y agoI’m wondering the same thing. You can see their fins flopping around as if it’s regular depths