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Now that's a post! This should really be it's own thread.

"The depth rating for this pressurized Wasp is about 2200 feet. Being the diver is breathing an air mixture there is no need for decompression..... Basically its a submarine shaped like a wasp designed for a single person, not for me thank you."

LOL I wonder what kind of person gets in that thing. It actually sounds like something that I would like to try.

"More like 3 miles down, but very rarely do we go that deep, yet. Average depth is anywhere from 3000 to 8000 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. This is where our technology has taken us thus far in constructing permanent installations in ultra deep water. At these depths the creatures, as rare as they are, move very slow. Some so strange words cannot explain. I would see at times, very large crabs, things growing up out of the seabed like cactus, that seem to sense with contortions the lights of our arrival. At first you ask, is this a plant or some fleshy organism? One time I couldn't believe it, there was this fish, instead of bottom fins it had small legs and was actually walking on the seabed! Some of this stuff is right out of fossil records but they're alive!".......

Clay+Iron_Times, I assume any animal that lives that far down is a carnivore, since plants probably can't grow that far under water. I've heard that the fish at extreme depths have to have enormous jaws, because they pretty much have to be able to swallow anthing that floats down to them. Do you think that's true?

"My division manager wrote a story for Oil and Gas Journal and the first line of the first paragraph was: Imagine dangling a pencil by a string from the top of the Empire State building, landing the pencil in the middle of a nickel on the sidewalk below. That’s the accuracies in acoustic surveying needed to install the Shell Mars TLP foundation piles."

Thanks to you both "Interested" and ".30Carbine", After posting I said to myself, I believe I went a bit long this time. However I'm glad I did and equally glad you enjoyed it.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.(Psalms 107:23-24)