ocean depth
How far down
Ocean depth is the vertical distance from the sea surface to the ocean floor.
The term appears in scientific and navigational contexts: The ocean depth here exceeds three miles.
It also serves as a measure of mystery or unknowability—the deep ocean remains less explored than the moon's surface.
- bathymetrySubaqueous topographical measurement
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- pressureForce upon contact
- crushing pressureForce compacting from all sides
- darknessTotal absence of light
pitch black · sunless · midnight zone · abyss · the deep · deep · deep blue · leagues · uncharted waters · cold · unfathomable · submarine canyon · chasm · hydrothermal vent · deep-sea mining · seafloor · Mariana · murky
- measurementsheight, stature, meters, pound, inch
- ocean depthsshallow, deep, abyss, deep sea, surface
- depthsabyss, deep, bottom, chasm, fathomless
- oceanographyoceanography, oceanographer, sonar, marine science, thermocline
- depth measurementsounding, echo sounder, fathom, bathymeter, bathymetry
- ocean floorseafloor, deep sea floor, oceanic crust, seamount, seamounts
marine vertical zones
ocean depthocean surface
Top of the sea
sea surface · surface waters · shallow water · surface layer · tidal zone