{{Title text: James Cameron has said that he didn't know its song would be so beautiful. He didn't close the door in time. He's sorry.}}

((Map of lakes and oceans showing the depths of various lakes and ocean attributes))

Lakes and Oceans
Depths and animal
ship
boat lengths are to scale; horizontal distance is not

Fun Fact: The Edmund Fitzgerald, The Kursk, and The Lusitania all sank in water shallower than they were long.

Edmund Fitzgerald
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Death Valley
Great Slave Lake
Crater Lake
Loch Ness
Lake Baikal
Burj Khalifa
Kursk
Lusitania
Aircraft carrier
Titanic
Seawise Giant (largest ship ever)
Free-diving depth record
Andrea Gail (probably)
Scuba record
Bike tires go flat
Pressure at this deapth would force water up a household faucet
Emperor penguin
Ohio-class nuclear sub depth limit
Typhoon-class nuclear sub depth limit
Blue whale
Leahterback turtle
Deepwater horizion
Dead sea
Kola borehole: Soviet project to try to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle just to see what would happen.  Russians are awesome.
Chilean mine
   collapse
   miner refuge
Sperm whales dive this deep (they come up covered in wounds and sucker marks, so presumably there are big squid down here?  ... man, we know nothing about the ocean.)
Mid-ocean ridge
Titanic (sunk bow & stern)
Abyssal plain
Alvin depth limit
David Bowie & Freddie Mercury
Puerto Rico Trench
Milwaukee Deep
Marianas Trench
Challenger Deep
Mysterious door which James cameron built his sub to reach and open.  He will not say what he found within.
Mauna Kea, Hawaii (accurate horizontal scale)
Marianas trench
OIL