How Deep Can You Possibly Dig?
What's the deepest hole you can possibly dig? Do you remember that absolutely divine feeling you had as a child when you were digging in wet sand at the beach deeper and deeper have you ever wondered?
Where would you have ended up if you had kept digging without stopping? Great news even if you never managed to find out how far down your little tunnel could go, this video will tell you maybe someone has already used modern technology to reach the core of the planet, and we just haven't heard about it yet but before you start digging for the truth, hit the red subscription button.
That's how you get to the bright side of life, Where numerous secrets are ready to be revealed, and if you don't want to miss anything new and exciting, ring the notification bell as well. That's how bright ciders learn about daily updates on the channel. Let's start Our dig at a depth of 2.3 feet. You'll find numerous Mole tunnels and rabbit warrens by the way a mole can dig a tunnel longer than 65 feet in just one day.
If we move down a bit more, we'll get to the standard depth Of a grave. If we're speaking about Western culture, of course, that's about 6 feet down. In fact, the actual depth of a grave can vary, but the expression six feet under didn't appear out of the blue. That was the burial depth in a plague-infected England, and it was a stipulation of the Mayor of London in 1665 such a depth was believed to prevent the Spreading of the infection, deep burrowing species of earthworms can be spotted at a depth of 10 feet. One of them draws with Grandis and can grow up to 3.5 feet long.
Gigantic worms haven't managed to scare us. So we're digging further down, about 13 feet underground, we come across the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun. It was discovered by archaeologists. Howard Carter, in 1922, 20 feet is the maximum range of a metal detector. Even so, a high-end detector will probably spot a car hidden underground.
At this depth, if a detector is not so advanced or if an object is small, it won't work. You can still find the roots of tropical forest plants if you dig 23 feet down. Tropical trees need such long roots to store water during During dry periods William little of Hackney, aka The Mole Man, lived in London and managed to burrow 26 feet under his own house.
He started in the 60s and this process took him more than 40 years. The web of caverns and tunnels the man dug spreads more than 65 feet away from the house, almost 40 feet down, and you'll see the deepest burrow made by An animal surprisingly, this super deep hole is dug by the Nile crocodiles.
When we arrive at a depth of 60 feet, we can see Beijing's underground city, that's a subterranean bomb shelter consisting of a vast network of Tunnels and underground rooms. It is situated under the capital of China at a depth of 66 feet. The Paris catacombs are located they were Discovered in the 18th century, these catacombs contain the remains of more than 6 million people.
Well, this might sound a bit shocking but at a Depth of 110 feet, there's an underground farm. Yes, they use a former bomb shelter to grow veggies and herbs in London. The deepest swimming pool in the world, the y40 diving pool in most grotto Terme Italy goes 131 feet down.
If you fell into this pool when there was no water in it, it would take you three seconds to reach the bottom. Do you Think that's too long or not long enough, tell us in the comments below. In Cappadocia, Turkey, there's an underground complex that probably dates back to the seventh century. Its name is the Darin Caillou underground city, and it's situated almost 280 feet below Earth's surface at 328 feet.
You'll find yourself at the death in which radioactive waste is stored, and just a bit deeper, at 346 feet, you'll be able to see where the deepest. Metro station in the world is situated that's our cinema metro station in Kyiv the Channel Tunnel connecting the UK with France is situated at a depth of 377 feet, a wild fig tree that grows at the echo caves near auric.
Stats ow that the ax has the deepest roots known to people. They go down 400 feet, but there's a hotel room that is situated even deeper than that You can find the deepest hotel room in the world, 508 feet underground, at Salas silver mine in Sweden sounds crazy, right, but what would you say about the deepest half marathon at a depth of 695 feet?
It took place in 2004 at the back of Nia Salt Mine in Poland, the deepest railway tunnel is located at a depth of 787 feet, that's the maximum depth of the seek and A tunnel in Japan opened in 1988, and the deepest Road tunnel on Earth is Ike's, a tunnel in Norway goes under the sea and reaches 942 feet below Earth's surface even if we could get down to 1,001 feet.
We'd still be in the danger zone for the 8 to earth-penetrating nuclear warhead that's its maximum destructive depth at a depth of 1286 feet. We'll see the deepest hand-dug water well, Wooding dean water well, which is located near Brighton, UK. It was created in 1862 and is also likely to be the deepest hole in the world ever dug without the use of any technology.
Remember this number 2110 feet? That's how far down that deepest natural shaft in the world goes. It's the verdict Lavasa cave in Slovenia if You were unlucky enough to fall down the shaft. Your fall will last 11 seconds before you reach the bottom; however, even deeper than that, at 2,000 297 feet, 33 Chilean miners were trapped for 69 days.
It happened in the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile in 2010, all of the miners were rescued at a depth of 3,800 feet. There's the deepest bat colony in the World, about 1,000 brown bats spend every winter in a zinc mine in New York. The deepest concert in history took place at a depth of 4,000 166 feet in a mine in Finland in 2007.
The performer was a band called Agonizer, then there's the home state gold mine in the USA. Its death was 4855 feet in 1965. This mine hosted a successful experiment scientists detected and counted subatomic neutrino particles from the Sun The deepest coal mine is the ginger ik2 mine which is located in the Czech Republic.
It has a depth of four thousand nine hundred twenty feet and closed in 1991 about five thousand nine hundred twenty feet down and We arrived at the deepest part of the 227-mile-long Grand Canyon. Its average depth is five thousand two hundred eighty-two feet the deepest cave known to humankind is the Gruber cave in the arabica Massif in Georgia.
The cave goes down seven thousand one hundred eighty-five feet at seven thousand six hundred seventy-seven feet below the Earth's a Surface that deepest radio broadcast took place was held by CBC, and happening Creighton mined Ontario, Canada in 2005 the deepest laboratory in the world is the Jinping underground laboratory in China and It is situated 8200, two feet underground.
Let's dig a bit deeper, and voila, ten thousand two hundred three feet down, and we see the deepest single-shaft elevator in the world. It's located in the MOA coats on gold mining in South Africa, if you decide to take the elevator down, it will take you four and a half minutes, but if you opt for a shortcut and jump into the shaft, you'll reach the bottom and just 25 seconds, the deepest known.
Multicellular organism dwells at a depth of 11811 feet. That's a worm found in the tout of a mine in South Africa. Now let's go deeper down the tout of mine. In fact, it's the deepest human destination in the world a Trip down to the bottom takes more than an hour.
The temperature there will definitely make you sweat. It reaches a whopping 151 degrees Fahrenheit. The average depth of the oceanic crust is almost 20,000 feet. This is also the depth of the deepest known microbes. They were found in rocks below China's song Lao Basin at a depth of about 36,000 feet.
There's the deepest point of the ocean Mariana Trench, but people have managed to get even deeper than that until recently, the absolute. The champion of the depths was the Kola super-deep borehole. This is the second deepest artificial hole on the planet, and it's situated in Russia. The depth of this wondrous human creation is 40,000 355 feet.
That was a Project of the Soviet Union, they tried to drill through Earth's crust; however, they only made it 1/3 of the way. After that, the temperature reached 356 degrees Fahrenheit, and the drill couldn't operate.
Longer if you stumble across this hole by accident, you aren't likely to recognize it. Its diameter is just 9 inches, and it looks absolutely nondescript. On the other hand, it probably helps to prevent people.
Accidentally falling down there. If you drop a coin down the shaft, it will fall 450 seconds before it reaches the bottom, and the winner in the category of the deepest artificial hole on Earth is Z 44 shave Oh oil and gas well, this shaft is drilled down to a whopping 40,000 604 feet that's 15 Burj Khalifa's put on top of each other the shaft is located in the Russian Far East.
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