How Deep are the Great Lakes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Are the Great Lakes deep enough to swallow the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building? We decided to investigate. #greatlakes #lakemichigan #lakehuron #lakeerie #lakesuperior #lakeontario
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Petition to put the eifel tower in lake michigan
I will sign
😂😂😂
Signed
Sighed
I will gladly support this endeavor.
If you didn't know any better and stood on the shore of lake superior you would think it was an ocean.
That’s not some Lake Superior special lol Lake Michigan is the same and I’m sure there’s other lakes where you can’t see the opposite shore
Lake Michigan looks like an ocean too.
Google Great Bear Lake way up in northern Canada. There are a few of these massive lakes all over the world.
As soon as you can't see the other side ( no trace)
Lake huron looks like the ocean too lol
The shallowness of Lake Erie is what makes it so dangerous. Storms whip up quickly and are often deadly. Lake Erie is littered with shipwrecks.
Lake Michigan claims more drowning victims. But they are all dangerous.
And the warmest to swim in😂
And Walleye !!!!
Why would shallow cause that?
@@RobertWhite-pz9wx tell me you know nothing about boats without telling me you know nothing about boats
As someone who lives next to Lake Erie, even though it’s the smallest and shallowest it still looks like and feels like the ocean minus the salt. It has beautiful beaches and even massive waves from time to time. It’s very beautiful and it’s like a mini freshwater ocean
Im from Buffalo. Hello fellow Lake Erie-er.
Its level is more influenced by the effects of wind than the deeper lakes; like blowing across a saucer of water.
@@MikeV8652 Incredibly good point
Exactly these depictions make them seem much more small and way more narrow in particular… I can’t see any horizon directly across from navy pier
I have heard Erie is pretty nasty due to chemical dumping?
You can fit all 4 Great Lakes plus 2 additional lake Eries inside of Lake Superior
Volume guys... not surface area.
And yet Michigan-Huron-Georgian Bay-Green Bay is bigger in surface area
MHGB : 117 300 km² / 45 300 sq mi
Superior : 82 100 km² / 31 700 sq mi
@@geoffroi-le-Hook, exactly. People forget that two lakes are actually one lake separated by an arbitrary line.
By volume? Cause i just checked the map and the surface area isnt telling that
@@jsmith42690Mackinac Bridge?
Volume or surface area? I assume volume
lake erie has a great personality
@@eliasbsalas Really funny
And great Walleye/perch fishing, but when she gets mad, watch out!
I was fishing for walleye on Lake Erie a few years before the pandemic I couldn’t believe the surface waves got so high on there. The captain told us to hang on, and we made it to shore safely, but man it was scary because the winds went right through Erie I forgot what it’s called what kind of phenomenon it’s called but it was weird.
@@TheWabbit I was fishing for walleye a couple years before the pandemic near Sandusky when the captain told us were headed back to shore because the waves he knew by instinct when she was gonna get mad, I give all the props to the captain when we got back to, you should’ve seen the size of those waves
@jamessveinsson6006 Buffalo gets the worst of it when the winds blow strong out of the west. The level of the lake can rise several feet in some cases. It is called a "seiche."
For some reason, I already expected a football field to appear as a unit of measurement.
lmao
Well it's a relatable reference to 100 meters
The lack of school buses surprised me
I couldnt imagine how deep they are without using whales as the unit of measurement
I`m disappointed Rhode Island wasn't mentioned.
I almost drowned in lake Erie on Saturday. No matter what you do, wear your life vest when you're on the water or have it within reach. Things can change in a split of a second
Glad you are alive. Hope you are well.
Glad you're safe! ❤
Glad you're able to post this. Stay safe out there
😊 yay you made it. Be careful out there
@@absoliutenuds Keep safe. Too many people don't respect the Great Lakes.
Another fun fact is that the lakes get rough and they get rough fast. There are over 6,000 ship wrecks on the great lakes and over 30,000 people have lost their lives to them
I would like to thank them for their service.
Definitely haunted
@@Mental_Illboyvery fitting name
@@fraskf6765 Thank you sir. They call me like this in school when they bully me because I bought flowers for my hot teacher because I'm in love with her.
They also have tidal effects.
I’ve flown over the Great Lakes before it seems like you’re flying over the ocean 😂
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Only difference is that you can drink it. (But you shouldn't)
@@CroweCollects You can drink ocean water as well, but you really shouldn't
@@FoxMulder-FBI id say saltwater is a lot worse than freshwater in this case yes, you shouldn't drink either unfiltered
@@CroweCollects Nah mate, the great lakes water is pretty clean relatively speaking thanks to the invasive zebra mussels
i do search and rescue i can't tell you the amount of people i have to rescue on these lakes. People ear lake and think they can take their small fishing boats on this. Yall respect the great lakes they are dangerous and makes big ass waves
Thank you for service to help.
Is it true these large inland lakes have tidal effects?
@@DEPORTER_SUPPORTER it is very true.
@@gabriellebenard5254
No they don’t have tidal effects … the water level remains the same throughout the day.
@andrewlandry625 there's a slight difference. You do know they used to be sea right?
I remember my first time flying over the Great Lakes and I thought we were going over an ocean it lasted for so long and went as far as the eye could see in every direction.
I've just seen a Great Lake for the first time, Lake Erie. It's monumental, you cannot see the other side from the coast, huge lake, the largest I'd ever seen, to know it's also the shallowest and smallest Great Lake really puts into perspective the scales we're talking about
The Great Lakes are really inland freshwater seas. Geography is really cool.
I live by the shore of Lake Superior. It is the closest you'll get to the feeling of an ocean coast.
You have Donald Trump's speaking patterns
@@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268 Gillis would be proud haha
I grew up a few blocks from lake erie and it is huge. It once got on fire due to pollution. 😢
Fun fact: there's an old iron ore mine in Tower, MN that they've turned into a historic site that you can go tour. They'll take you to the deepest level mined, which is 2,341 feet down.
The Soudan Mine--been there!
Deepest in America, North America, Western Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere, or in the world?
@@danadams6477In that particular mine, I would presume.
@@danadams6477they'll take you to the deepest part of that mine, not that it's the deepest anything
They won’t take me
For all the non-Americans
Erie - 64m
Huron - 228m
Ontario - 245m
Michigan - 281m
Superior - 406m
😂 Cheers
How do you convert that back to number of bald eagles carrying a flagpole though?
Witchcraft
Wish we would use one. Meaning America use metric system but they tried to switch a few times. Never worked
When do you non-Americans expect your first smart phones?
If you are unfamiliar with the conversions, it can be an invaluable tool...
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come slashin'.
I just recently saw two of the Great lakes in person for myself and it's pretty wild looking out over them and they're like just endless water.
Freshwater oceans indeed!
Them ain’t lakes at all them’s seas
Lake superior is 1337ft deep? How do I know? Because it's *superior.* 😊
@tinycockjock1967 yep, bigger than some o' dem actual "seas" 😮 😉
I’m on Lake Erie and whenever distant family comes over I get reminded of how unusual it is even tho it’s normal for me
What can I say, but Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion.
Farther below Lake Ontario takes in what Lake Erie can send her.
The islands and the bays are for Sportman
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
@@earthlingjohnWhen the gales of November come early
well done fellas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I snorkel in Lake Superior. It's like being in an aquatic desert unseen by man. The water is caribbean clear, rock formations are amazing, the caves are unique to explore, and the northern pike are massive! Very thrilling buy also terrifying adrenaline rush.
Caves are melted buildings. Mountains are melted buildings. The more you look. You see it.
I can't seem to get passed my Naval in superior Ita always Colder very cold
@@Maaaatttttt and pigeons are state cameras the more you look, the more you see
@@blanco7726a sweet a schizo meltdown
@@Maaaattttttthe dome bro, look up videos of the sunlight refracting. I wonder how they do the planes 🤔
Actually, you could still see the Empire State building because The antenna reaches 1454 feet.
In the grand scheme of things, the great lakes are not that deep.
Yes, the Empire State building would still be barely visible if place at the bottom of Superior, but if it were placed at the bottom of Lake Hornindal (Norway), it would be fully submerged, by a significant margin too. This lake is 1650 feet deep.
@@Skarfar90why the great lakes are significant is not because of their depth, It's because of the sheer volume of fresh water stored inside them, If memory surface between all of the great lakes, that is about 20% of the world's surface freshwater all in one source effectively, I'm like Superior has I believe 10% or more of the world's surface freshwater. Also these are not really lakes, these are landlocked oceans that get some extremely aggressive weather when they feel like it, to the point where during the war of 1812 there would be Naval battles going on on these lakes that would abruptly end because the weather was picking up and nobody wanted to test how their ships would fare against these storms
**queue internet debate about what constitutes the top of a skyscraper**
I live in the Thumb of Michigan on Lake Huron. We have the most beautiful western view sunsets and eastern view sunrises over the lake. Just spectacular.
That’s pretty cool though I’m not waking up for sunsets. I’ll take your word for it. 🤣
So to your West is WI where I am inland about 25 miles and 35 miles NW of Green Bay. 👍😎
@@StuStevens-rn7rb That's way over past Lake Michigan. I'm on the east side of Michigan on Lake Huron.
Ugh wow💓
Always love the view when passing over the Blue Water Bridge. It’s quite nice!
i’m from Duluth, MN, a beautiful city on the shores of Lake Superior. everyone here recognizes and respects the power of the lake. it’s gorgeous and dangerous and massive
Lake Erie is the most dangerous, right? Our Lakes are the best, am I right?
My only complaint is tourist season, too many people imo. The lakes are good for keeping the temps regulated
@@lander90 yeah, a bittersweet truth about buffalo new york. its a poor city. when people visit niagara falls, they are usually on the canadian side. leaves us free of tourists. but... it leaves us free of tourists. no money from them. and people who go through buffalo complain about it (they probably drive through the homeless streets). that worsens its reputation.
I’m from Mankato, love Duluth
I've seen St John Bay is tent city in the winter
Lake Superior feels like an ocean when I went there
Try toba lake 😂
Lake Superior is actually big enough to be an inland sea but it is called a lake so it matches the rest.
I grew up in Cleveland and you just don’t realize how special the great lakes are until you visit other places. You can’t see the other side!
So the earth is flat?
Lake Erie is a pond compared to Lake Michigan
I live next to Lake Superior. I can see it from my window.😊 Ah, fresh air 😊😊😊😊😊
Me too!😊😊😊
Do ever swim in it?
@@briantbmoth6472 Nobody really swims in Superior. You jump in and jump right back out shivering and say "Damn that water f'ing cold"
I'm always a Lake Ontario kind of guy, Toronto you can't beat, though now I live near London which is between Huron and Erie. Lake Superior is way up north and makes me feel like the cities that are there are frozen wastelands and are quite dumpy, like Sault Ste Marie, ON where my family is from
@@1300BlueStarthere is a race everyone once in a while to swim from bayfield to Madeline island. But beyond that the only time to go swimming is on the beach or from a boat with a life jacket
Hence why ships stay in lake superior. Its so cold that bodies don't rot and ships do not decompose
I never knew that
@@Epoch11look up the images of the Kamloops wreck. She went down in 1927 on Lake Superior. The engineer who’s known as “Ol’ Whitey” is still in the engine room and you can dive next to him. He’s decomposed to a point but because that water is so cold, he’ll never fully go away. Because of the water a diver will disperse, Ol’ Whitey will follow you if you dive next to him in the wreck.
@@TillerG7thx for sharing
@@TillerG7 I bet that’s made a couple wetsuits a little warmer 😂
Living on the northern part of Superior, I will always go swim on an inland lake. Superior is not swimming friendly. As a guy, you will suffer from a severe case of “rumple-foreskin” or “ASD”, better known as “Acute shrinky dink”….🤪
I like how the fall off in the depth is so abrupt. It gets deeper a little and then just straight down like damn
thats what i'm saying
Yes but bear in mind that these are highly exaggerated. Like take the Lake Michigan diagram - it's 900 feet deep but something like 50 miles wide. That means its depth isn't even 1% its width. An accurate cross-section would just look like a straight line that gets a little thicker in the middle.
if that was the real shape, these lakes would only be like 300 foot across. Those pictures are just showing the depth.
@@steviemac2681 or it would be like 100 miles deep
The ocean in Egypt has a cliff like ocean floor where sharks regularly attack humans
“Easily swallow the Empire State Building”
She sounds like a keeper 😅
Let's measure depths by buildings. Anything but metric lol
Them glaciers did serious work. Then they got lazy on Eerie, lol.
Yeah and if we didn’t have SUVs those glaciers would still be here….
Sarcasm
actually lake superior and michigan were created during a failed continental rifting event approximately a billion years ago. google "midcontinent rift system" or "keweenawan rift"
There's thousands of lakes from the glacier much much smaller throughout north America
Amazing stories
Amazing stories
I cannot believe that he’s proposing to put the Eiffel Tower in Lake Michigan, I’m reporting this to the DEC.
I’m with you!! What an outrageous idea!!👍😹
He claims you can "safely" put the Golden Gate Bridge in. Reported!
Don't forget that he also proposed putting the Renaissance Center in Lake Huron!
@@MarcillaSmith right and no pun intended, but that’s where he crosses the line!
@@thatnerd1 if so, I wonder which news outlet will provide total “coverage” !
I used to live on lake Michigan. Its Big! It deserves the reputation it gets. Thanks.
Shaped kind of like a big wang
On a houseboat?
Just went to Lake Michigan, went early in the morning so there weren’t many others, it was so peaceful and chill😌🎶🌊
What really interests me is that in Michigan, some areas are so peaceful then in the Detroit area it’s so chaotic all the time
Other fun fact: All of us laymen call them The Great Lakes. In the scientific community, they are known as the North American Inland Sea.
They're called that because they generate their own weather patterns, iirc.
As well as EVERY modern geographic textbooks
Yup, Cleveland is known for the "Lake effect" on it's football stadium.
Yet no tides??
@@krispoli22Interesting point 🤔?
@@krispoli22 It's not affected by the ocean as much since the Lakes drain into the Atlantic
An oddity is that Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in NY, has a maximum depth of 618 feet even though it is much smaller than Erie. The Navy tests sub equipment in Seneca because of the depth.
I think Gordon Lightfoot probably summed up the Great Lakes fairly well in one of his songs.....😢
"the lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when The gales of November come early"
I must now discover Gordon Lightfoot songs.
@@Starry_Night_Sky7455the ballad of the edmund fitzgerald😢
@@FScotsman4472 "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, 'bout the great lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'."
@@HMSHOOD1920 oops my b idk why i remembered the name as that
I had family visit from England a few years back. They landed in Toronto and when they saw lake Ontario they were shocked that it was just a lake. They said it looked like the ocean.
I live in Chicago and I was not aware it was that deep. I love swimming there and can't wait to get to Michigan to swim there too.
Try swimming to Michigan.
From Michigan. We know.
Never take Gitche Gumee for granted
Lake Superior is one of the greatest places I have ever seen with my eyes
Can you see something any other way?
what is so cool about it? I'm close enough to visit. tell me more!
I've seen it, it looks like the other great lakes, I've lived near Lake Ontario my whole life and it's just alright.
I've seen all of the lakes and they all look the same to me
@@coastaku1954 so it looks like a bunch of water?
@@theskyizblue2day431 Yes, but it doesn't taste salty
I love how Lake Superior looks like a hand pointing downward lol.
Also, interesting to me that Lake Huron is the depth of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico!
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Guni”
The Lake, it is said, never givers up their dead when the Skies of November turn gloomy...❤
The sudden drop is terrifying
As if I needed more reason to not like lakes.
Murky waters, grabby weeds and sheer drops. So much nope.
@@williansnobre I’m terrified of deep water myself
Fortunately, this is not what an actual cross section would look like, its just to help you visualize the depths a bit better. Lake Michigan is 923 feet deep, but its 118 miles wide, which is 623,040 feet. So, an actual cross section would look like a long, flat blue line with maybe the tiniest little bump in the middle. Same goes for all the Lakes, especially Erie.
@@joe.b944 Not so deep as Baikal (5387,139 feet). It's like the height of two Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
I guarantee you, that The Great Lakes are called that for a reason. If you're paying that much attention to the "drop off", you might wanna rethink that. Those lakes aren't as skinny as football fields or towers.
Oceans of fresh water 💧
Now this has to be the first size video I've seen without a wacky comparison. I'm a bit dissapointed that I don't know how many Cybertrucks stacked on top of each other I can fit into Lake Superior.
Imagine packing the Empire State Building but your girlfriend has Lake Superior.
New girlfriend
This is what the butt is for.
...
This is the peak of youtube commentary
That's one big woman
Lake superior could fill the grand canyons and then submerge the entire continuous 48 states in 2 in. of water, now imagine what would happen with all 5 of them
Contiguous*
Lake Baikal is 3X Deeper and 6-8 x more water.
@@andrewhall7930Baikal has 1.89 times as much water, not “6-8”, and Baikal is 4 times deeper, not 3. Superior’s surface area is 2.6 times bigger than Baikal.
@@andrewhall7930
Caspian Sea: 149,200 square miles.
Lake Superior: 31,700 square miles.
Lake Victoria: 26,828 square miles.
Lake Huron: 23,000 square miles.
Lake Michigan: 22,300 square miles.
Lake Tanganyika: 12,700 square miles.
Lake Baikal: 12,200 square miles.
Great Bear Lake: 12,096 square miles.
Where did all this water come from
I worked a boat on the Mississippi River and was terrified when the sounder showed more than 300’. It didn’t help that all the doors in the boat opened out meaning if you were going down water pressure would hold the doors closed
Whoa, where on the Mississippi does it get 300’ deep?
A number of places.@@Mattkennedy83
Everywhere within a few years.
Climate change is a bitch.
Yikes! That's something a movie director could borrow for a suspenseful scene.
It’s called Lake Superior for a reason. What a treat to grow up in MN and visit Duluth and the north shore
Some time ago I moved from NYC to upstate NY. I have wondered about the Great Lakes! I know so little about them. It is great to know their depths! And your illustrative pictures are really so good. Thanks for this!
Those graphics were some of the most confusing I’ve ever seen
You never seen a cross-section before it’s not confusing in the slightest It’s just to show you the depth of the lake not any other weird information that you’re trying to shove in there for absolutely no reason
From what I understand, those are not the real cross-sections of these lakes, or at least if they are, they're taken from a very odd angle, The deepest parts are not a significant percentage of their overall area, although that graphic of Lake Superior is pretty demonstrative of why it's called Lake Superior, It has the most fresh water of any one Source anywhere in the world by quite the wide margin
@@the_undead i looked it up and the baikal has a volume of 5,660 cu mi and lake tanganyika has 4,500 cu mi compared to the 2,900 cu mi of lake superior
You can't perceive things very well can you
@@baw5615 The thing is the great lakes are technically all connected and when you consider them all together then what I said is definitely still true and regardless it is a truly ridiculous amount of fresh water all in one location
My first ten years of life were in Lorain, Ohio. I've been on boats in Lake Erie, and the feeling you get when you look in all directions and cannot see land...just blue water and blue sky...I was frightened, and humbled. 🙁🌹⚓
The American Shipbuilding Company of Lorain, Ohio built a lot of the lakes' freighters over the years.
I still have no idea what that means. I cannot visualise topography unless it is in meters
We love our great lakes. Go Michigan!
Ontario!! But i love all of them.. Im from Toronto but Americans from the region are more similar to me than Canadians from out west
Going over the Mackinac bridge is an awe inspiring sight and taking the ferry to Mackinac Island also provides much clarity on the size of the bodies of water surrounding the state I call home.
I remember seeing the Sears Tower in Chicago from across Lake Michigan in Lakeshore, Michigan
Because the earth is flat...
@@citizenGmanBecause you are an idiot…
@@citizenGman8 inches per mile of curvature * 350 miles = 233 ft. Height of the Sears Tower 1454. I hope you're just a troll
@@skylersutton241 no, genious, its 8" × miles SQUARED. Try 81,666 feet. Why do you globe defenders have to go so far out of your way, to show how completely ignorant you are? If you know nothing about a subject, you shouldn't argue with someone who does. Anything else you want to know, Einstein?
@@citizenGmanokay it is. What now?
Growing up on Lake Michigan it was always like a mini ocean to us! Interesting to see these graphics!!!!!
Because of the sizes, it always amazes me how looking into the horizon at the coasts is like looking out into the ocean.
From Chicago, and grew up along Lake Michigan... interesting times
Lake Baikal is a lake too...
It is 5300 feet deep.
And clear!
It is the deepest and oldest lake in the world.
@@michaelmosier5627 ...and over a geologically young, rapidly expanding rift feature. Fascinating
Not only deep, but has more volume than all great lakes combined. It contains 20% of all the world's fresh water.
@@MichaelBrewick where is it?
@@StuStevens-rn7rb North of Mongolia
This is so cool! I love fun facts like this, and thank you for sharing ⭐️
As a Michigan man, I agree 100%!
Placing Lake Superior as the 4th deepest lake in the US behind Crater, Tahoe and Chelan
Great lakes not regular lakes
@@chikidd24 Okay. My statement was to indicate its place among all lakes even though the video was about Great Lakes.
@bigdaddio1959 why would he do that when it's about great lakes u just answered your own question 😂
@@chikidd24 you need to work on reading comprehension
@@bigdaddio1959 I learned from your mother
Super scary part of them aswell is it is an IMMEDIATE drop off to the deep parts, almost all the edges of lake superior (That I personally have swam at) were very shallow, until they weren't. Be careful!
yeah thats crazy how did they form like that? have u seen the edge?
Lake Superior Facts!!!
Length- 350 miles
Width- 150 miles
Water surface area- 31,700 squared miles
Max depth- 1,333ft
Avg depth- 483ft
Volume- 3 quadrillion gallons
Avg water temp- 40°F
Shoreline length- 2,726 miles
They are surprisingly 'shallow', Lake Como in Northern Italy is 1364 feet deep (416meters). It is much smaller though
Wow that's really shallow, Lake Baikal in Russia is 5,300 feet deep which is 1,640 m. Lol. That's what you get for calling my Lake shallow.😘
@Epoch11 That serves me right! Compared to lake Baikal, Lake Como is just a big puddle 😘
@@Epoch11Genuinelly crazy how deep that is. Google says it is roughly 20% of all unfrozen fresh water in the world
Most are shallow due to a sedimentary basin capping their depth. Superior is deeper because it's a "failed" rifting zone.
@@MaggieGrubs
Is Lake Como a rift lake?
I love the way you guys do investigation for something seemingly boring and make it interesting and use different ways for us to understand how deep it is by using buildings to visualize it! Kudos well done!
The lake Superior profile looks like the # number one hand
Yep lol..
That's crazy! Thanks for the info 😃
The Edmund Fitzgerald was 730 feet long
I can sleep now thanks uploads !
This is pretty cool learning just how deep our Lakes are! 🤽♀️🌊 WoW good old Lake Superior is so Deep!
Lol i guessed Superior was deepest bc of that Gordon Lightfoot song.
But it's thought that the ship broke in half because the bow hit the bottom of the lake. The lake may have been dangerous because of its size, but the ship may have been safer in deeper waters.
Yeah, we don't have anything like that in Oklahoma. It's definitely on my bucket list to fish the great lakes. My favorite species is smallmouth bass and from what I have seen, that's where the giants live
Just a heads up, upon leaving we reserved the right to check your bags, cause people out west have been trying to steal our water for decades. Lol
There are a lot of unknown ship wrecks.
This is actually amazing; it's really inspiring to see how he found and developed his style over time.
I went snorkeling in Lake Michigan and it was 660 feet deep. It’s really freaky snorkeling in that deep of water it’s all black.
I bet it was cold af
@@Eddiedubes yes. I didn’t have a diving suit on and I could only go out for about 20 minutes. My cousin did have one on though. It was still a lot of fun.
For our metric friends:
Erie 64m
Huron 228m
Ontario 244m
Michigan 284m
Superior 406m
Gay
@@Carl_McMelvin means happy
Ew a filthy euro. Begone.
Thanks
I agree, metric system is completely homo erotic @@Carl_McMelvin
Lake Baikal (Siberia) max depth: 5387 feet
You beat me , good job...Why he would not include that fascinating piece of info is beyond me.??
@@mopacwestgatebecause he's talking about the Great Lakes. Did your mother consume alcohol while pregnant?
Lake Baikal is the deepest Lake in the entire world. It has barely been explored and has very unique wildlife.
Who cares? What does that have to do with the great lakes?
@@echoromeo384 It has everything to do with The Great Lakes.
I've been to lake Superior and lake Michigan a couple times. They look like oceans, and the water is extremely clear. Lots of cool rocks on the shore too.
I guess i dont understand how a glacier can make them that deep
The glacier was 10k feet thick.
It can't
Not only will a glacier gouge out the softer materiel and transfer it south, the sheer weight of a glacier can depress the ground underneath it, squeezing the ground out in different directions. (Imagine placing a hot potato on a stick of butter).
@@Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan I'd bet they are aquifers with tunnels and shafts that go to deeper waters waaaaay underground.
@@Second.Nature.Lawn.Michigan yes they can
Seems deep enough to operate submarines in there.
People hear “great lakes” and their mind goes to backyard pond.
The Great Lakes are freshwater inland seas. To think any less of them is foolish. Like any of the saltwater seas/oceans, the Great Lakes will swallow you alive without a care.
@@mechcommander7876it really does throw me off seeing full size container ships there.
They'd be confined to one (maybe two) lakes. You'd have to travel through the Soo Locks to get from Superior to Huron/Michigan; through the St Mary's river and Lake St Clair to get from Huron to Erie (Lake St Clair has to be regularly dredge to keep it deep enough for shipping); travel from Erie to Ontario is restricted by Niagara Falls, the Niagara River, and the depth of the Welland Canal.
Absolutely. The US Navy has a submarine test program in Lake Pend Oreille in N Idaho and that's at "only" 1,150 ft deep. The subs are scaled down but they're still pretty sizeable.
Remember that four out of five Great Lakes prefers Michigan!
Yea, but the biggest city only got a river. 😊
Gay
I remember going on a camping trip to lake Michigan with my boyfriend and some friends. Wonderful times, astonishing scenery
Although lake Erie might not have the deepest parts in the Great lakes, it still holds the record out of all the Great lakes for being the most consistently deep lake. If you look at the average depths of each lake lake Erie is the deepest.
Do you mean the average as a percentage of it's max? Maybe then. Googling doesn't show the average depth of eerie to be the deepest.
This folks, is why you don't listen to a Slacker.
I was building an Eddie Bauer store in Michigan once and a resident told me there were times of the year that you could walk across Lake Michigan. Apparently they never tried to.
You can drive across some of the more eastern lakes. There's a few Mowhawk reservations that span the borders. they will drivee across during the deep winter.
For average ice cover for the Great Lakes is 53% and has decreased by 5% per decade since the 1970's.
Lake cover can range from less than 20% to more than 90%.
Crossing the Great Lakes will depend on ice cover on any given year. People and other animals have been known to cross the ice on Great Lakes on two or four legs by walking, skiing, skating, riding, or dog sleding. Using mechanical or motorized vehicles including snowmobiles, iceboats airboats, and others.
The trend of lessening ice cover on the Great Lakes is being attributed to global warming.
@@melanieortiz712 I'm talking about the water being shallow enough to walk across.
@@sharonwilbourne7256 I'm talking about the water being shallow enough to walk across.
You would never know by just looking on the surface 😮
Yes exactly because based on how flat the land is, it definitely does not seem like there's that much of a drop. The area around the lake is practically a mountain when compared to the bottom.
I never even though about how deep they were. Thank you! Interesting!
Feets, hands, eagles... But how many meters/ kilometers?
Rule of thumb:
1 decameter = 0.045 Edmund Fitzgeralds.
Metric is useless cuz how does 1.58m help for height? Just say 5 feet 😂
@@nat0radeIt’s better because its decimal based, it’s inherently better. 100cm=a meter, 1000m = a kilometer etc… Here’s a good example, what is 1.58 dollars? Obviously, a dollar and 58 cents. Easy. But go back to victorian england and you can’t possibly understand the currency system because it isn’t decimal based, and like the Imperial system you have no definite rule for what makes up a Pound.
That’s why Imperial sucks and is not used in the US Military or most of the industrial sector here.
For those who were wondering:
Lake Erie: 64 meters
Lake Huron: 228 meters
Lake Ontario: 244 meters
Lake Michigan: 281 meters
Lake Superior: 406 meters
If it were my choice, I'd suggest comparing each Great Lake to a city on its shoreline. Like Duluth for Lake Superior, Chicago for Lake Michigan, Detroit for Lake Huron (you did that), Cleveland for Lake Erie, and Buffalo for Lake Ontario.
Tell everyone you don’t know sh!t about geography while telling everyone you don’t know sh!t about geography. Buffalo isn’t on Lake Ontario, it’s on Erie.
And Detroit for Huron? No man
Toronto for Lake Ontario
Apparently all the Great Lakes are less than two city blocks wide, based on these images. Not gonna lie, they look a little bigger than that on Google Maps.
Lol they are far wider than that 😂. Trying to a picture to compare to real life is stupid.
St. Clair is just a dot on the map. It's a pretty big lake
First time I have heard someone mispronounce Eiffel Tower.
that's a typical American pronunciation
@@geoffroi-le-Hook Speak for yourself
That’s how everyone pronounces it, my guy
That is how no one pronounces it. I suggest you listen to what he says again. My guy 🤏🧠@@veganmocha
@@veganmochano its not, my guuy. He said Effel tower. The people of france and europe as a whole probably know how to pronounce it. But of course the vegan murican knows it better because you know everything better than anyone else, riight?
Why is Lake Superior a hand pointing to hell
Because when Lake Superior claims her dead they go straight to hell.
Wow.
I used to go boating and tubing on my uncle's boat on Lake Erie when I was a kid. It really does look like an ocean. Smallest, shallowest, it doesn't matter. it's still huge! The waves are incredible for a lake.
Not sure where I read it, but L. Superior isn't really a lake given its specifics, but an inland Sea.
My local body of fresh water is close to 600 feet deep. The fjord is the worlds third longest, and a depth of 4 274.9 feet. It's quite the humbling feeling
Lake superior is still only the 42nd deepest lake in the world
Ok don't cry
seeing them visualized in that manner is absolutely terrifying. Like you've got a gradual decline for like 50 feet and then a steep cliff into Cthulhu's abyss!
Reminder to non-Michiganders, dont come looking for water in the apocalypse. We dont share
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The Great Lakes states signed a pact to not send Great Lakes water elsewhere.
What are you blabbering about?
Some westerners experiencing drought had proposed piping water from the Great Lakes out west to fix it. Ignoring the technological infeasibility, they'd come up against not only US political and legal shit but also Canadian political and legal shit.
In an apocalypse scenario, it's survival of the fittest. You'd have to have the necessary reinforcements to protect against marauders.