045 · Hadal zone · 10,935 m
SUBMERSIBLE 2,140 m
PRESSURE 214 bar · TEMP 2.4°C
click water for sonar ping that scares fish
0m
11km
move mouse = submersible lampbioluminescence: high
Anglerfish

Lures prey with bacterial lanterns. Your floodlight lure draws them close; sonar scatters them deep.

Lanternfish

Silver schools migrate 1 km nightly. They flee the lamp cone but swarm a sonar ping's edge.

Siphonophore

A colony acting as one animal, trailing 40 m of stinging thread. Only appears below 3,000 m.

Marine snow

Dead plankton drifts down like weather. The snow slider thickens the fall; hadal zones bury it.

Dive appendix · E — pressure calculator

Squeeze the numbers.

Every 10 metres adds one bar — about one elephant standing on your thumbnail. Type any depth and feel the squeeze.

2,140 m → 214 bar · styrofoam cup size: thimble
0 msurface, 1 bar
1,000 mno light, 100 bar
4,000 mabyss, 400 bar
10,935 mChallenger Deep, 1,071 bar
Alvin

Human submersible rated 4,500 m. Titanium sphere, three portholes, one robotic arm.

Trieste

Reached Challenger Deep in 1960. The crew heard the hull groan and kept descending.

Styrofoam

Divers hang cups outside the sub. Pressure crushes them into souvenirs.