Name: Living at the Bottom of the Ocean? ft. @theodd1sout
Uploaded: 2025-06-14T03:33:23.000Z
Duration: 5 min 40 s
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I'm at the very bottom of the Flatlantic Ocean.

This is the bottom of the ocean in my world.

Um, duh, you intelligent little magic eraser.

I come here in between uploads to get away from all the stress.

Oh, well, I know a fun thing that we could- No!

I'm going back into my top secret ocean house.

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It not only covers 71% of the Earth's surface, but it also extends 5.8 kilometers down to the ocean floor.

And some trenches go even further down to over 11 kilometers.

All these depths are frigid temperatures, immense pressures, and endless darkness.

Huh, kind of sounds like my time in middle school.

Anyway, not exactly a prime real estate location.

So what would life be like living down there?

Well, the last traces of sunlight end at about 1 kilometer down.

Beyond that, it's completely dark, without sunlight.

At about 2 kilometers, temperatures hit a low of about 2 degrees Celsius.

At the lowest point of the ocean, which is the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the pressure is 1,100 times greater than at sea level.

This would feel like, I don't know, something random I'm just making up now, 100 elephants standing on your head.

This pressure would compress the oxygen and nitrogen that make up the air in your lungs, letting them dissolve into your bloodstream, which would cause some major problems, since it only takes about 75 meters for the amount of dissolved nitrogen to incapacitate divers.

To survive at the bottom of the ocean, explorers use deep submergence vehicles, or DSVs, that are able to withstand the large amount of pressure thanks to their 9 centimeter thick walls.

But while the most advanced DSV was built for dives lasting 4 days, the longest time anyone has ever spent at the bottom of the ocean was just 4 hours and 15 minutes.

Though people have lived underwater for much longer than that.

Crews on submarines stock enough food to stay submerged for about 3 months, though the pressure inside is the same as it is on land.

After adjusting to the constant smells from the recycled air, and never knowing whether it's day or night, their main problem is the lack of space in such a compact vessel.

But there is a research facility located about 19 meters underwater where scientists can live at ocean pressure for as long as they want, though the longest anyone has spent is just one month.

Can someone tell me why there's a green shriveled up alien and a shrimp with muscular arms outside my door?

These researchers have experienced some interesting side effects of living at higher pressure, including higher pitched voices, increased hunger, and a feeling of drunkenness from all the nitrogen in their blood.

While that doesn't sound so bad, eventually breathing in the denser air would damage your circulation system, which does sound bad.

Scientifically speaking, your body gets a permanent owie.

Wait, James, how are you able to survive down here after everything I just mentioned?

I'm made of pixies and will live forever.

I think he's had too much nitrogen in the blood.

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