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How does pressure change as you go deeper into the water?

How does water pressure change as you go deeper in the ocean?

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    At sea level, the air that surrounds us presses down on our bodies at 14.7 pounds per square inch (1 bar). You don't feel it because the fluids in your body are pushing outward with the same force. Dive down into the ocean even a few feet, though, and a noticeable change occurs. You can feel an increase of pressure on your eardrums. This is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure, the force per unit area exerted by a liquid on an object. The deeper you go under the sea, the greater the pressure of the water pushing down on you. For every 33 feet (10 meters) you go down, the pressure increases by 14.7 psi (1 bar).

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Imagine you are diving to a depth of 30ft. Now there is 30 feet of water above you pushing down on you. What you have to remember is that water has weight. So all of that water creates pressure. Kind of like putting a heavy rock on top your chest while laying down. Except since you are fully submersed, it is from all directions. It obviously is a bit more technical than this but hopefully this explanation helps you understand the overall concept. Fun fact of the day, every 33ft of water increases the pressure by 1 atm.

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Pressure in a body of any liquid (or fluid for that matter) works by the following equation: P=pgz where P is the pressure, p (supposed to be greek letter rho) is density of fluid, g is gravitational acceleration which is 9.81 m/s^2, and z is the distance below the surface of the liquid or fluid. This gives you a mathmatical understanding of how ocean pressure works. As you can see from the above eqn, the pressure increases linearly as you increase the depth of the water. From a biological perspective, humans technically will never crush under this pressure (human bones are strong enough to withstand this) however you can still kill yourselve if you go deep enough in the ocean. Your blood can boil, gases can expand and be released in your body, etc... still making it a bad idea to test you physiological limits. Another interesting fact that some people don't realize, pressure only depends on depth. That means if you dive 1000 ft in the ocean and 1000ft in a well that has a diameter of a yard, you would experience the same pressure as long as the liquid was the same, that always blew my mind.

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P=Po+rho*g*h Po-->pressure at ground level=atmospheric pressure in pascal(pa=N/m^2) g=9.8m/sec^2 h--> depth in meter rho-->1000kg/m^3

Harsh

Water pressure increases the deeper you go. At a surprisingly shallow level you would be crushed to death - I believe it's only about a thousand feet or so.

Cletus

The weight of the water.

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