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Show Water 31,000 Feet Deep. The deepest spot in the sea is 100 miles off the Island of Guam, where soundings made by Dr. Charles H. Townsend of the Albatross expedition recorded a depth of 31,000 feet, nearly six miles. Dr. Townsend told the Campfire Club of America, at its annual dinner, that he had also found animal life at a depth of 4 3-4 miles In the Tonga basin, New Zealand, under a pressure of 4 1-2 tons to the square inch. The atmospheric pressure on the body of man is a little more than 15 pounds to the square inch. |