Pressure Of The Sea

There are spots in the ocean where he water is five milef Jeep. If it is rue that the pressure of the water on any body in the water is one pound to ;he square inch for every two feet of ihe depth, anything at the bottom of one of the "five mile holes" would have a pressnre about it of 13,200 feet to evry square inch. There is nothing of ïuman manufacture that would resist uch a pressure. That it exists there is no doubt;. It is known that the pressure on a well corked glass bottle at the epth of 300 feet is so great that the vater will force its way through the xjres of the glass. It is also said that )ieces of wood have been weighted and unk in the sea to such a depth that the issues have become so condensed that ;he wood has lost its buoyancy and vould never float again. It could not