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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gad Ernest, we're talking stuff I learned 25 years ago in an oceanology course!

The is about the DeSoto Canyon, which is off the coast of Pensacola, FL. From what I could find in a quick scan it goes to a maximum depth of about 3,000 feet, which is at the lower limit of the mesopelagic zone. Some light does penetrate this deep and there are phytoplankton that live in the mesopelagic zone, but I do not know how deep.

61 posted on 08/17/2010 9:50:27 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Government is an apex predator.)
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To: Carry_Okie
LOL...I never had a course in oceanology ...I was into pure math, and a little physics....

I thought the canyons in the Gulf were something like that really deep one off of the Cayman Islands.

63 posted on 08/17/2010 9:55:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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