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Recreational diver Scuba diving
CN Tower Burj record Sunlight
100 ft.
Hot air balloon 1,815 ft. Khalifa 1,083 ft. Reaches to
Average travel height 2,717 ft. about 3,000 ft.
2,000 ft.
Cumulus clouds Deepwater Horizon
Below 6,000 ft. blowout preventer K-278 Komsomolets
Lake Louise, Alta. 5,000 ft 5,000 ft. 3,345 ft.
Highest Canadian settlement “Deep Sea”
5,033 ft. Sharks Below 5,900 ft.
Common down to 7,000 ft.

Earth’s air:
Tibet Average ocean floor depth
78.09% Nitrogen
is the highest
region on Earth, 10,000 ft 12,080 ft.
with an average Sperm whales
elevation of 16,000 RMS Titanic Deepest diving
ft. Some refer to it
20.95% as the “roof of the
Wreck lays at mammal, can reach
Oxygen 12,460 ft. depths of 9,800 ft.
world.”
0.039%
Carbon
0.93%
dioxide
Argon 15,000 ft Permitted
drilling depth Eurasia Basin
La Rinconada, Peru of Deepwater Deepest point Fangtooth
Horizon in the Arctic Ocean Deepest-living fish,
Highest city in the world
17,881 ft. found as far as
16,732 ft. 18,000 ft. 16,400 ft.
Mount Logan
Oceans cover an area of about:
Canada’s highest peak
20,000 ft Java Trench
19,551 ft.
Deepest point
in the Indian Ocean
335,258,000 sq. km
Cirrus clouds 23,376 ft.
Above 18,000 ft. South Sandwich
Most underwater
Trench organisms are made
Death zone 25,000 ft Deepest point
in the Southern Ocean
up entirely of liquid or
solid material, so they
Air above 26,000 ft. does not 23,736 ft. are not affected by
have enough oxygen to support
pressure at great
human life Puerto Rico Trench depths.
K2 Deepest point in the Atlantic
28,251 ft. Ocean
28,374 ft.
Ruppell’s vultures Mount Everest
have specialized 29,029 ft. 30,000 ft
hemoglobin with a
high affinity for Trieste
oxygen, allowing them Commercial plane Deepest dive
to breathe at such Typical cruising altitude by a manned submersible
high altitudes. 32,500 ft. 35,797 ft.
Mariana Trench
Ruppell’s vulture (Pacific)
World’s highest-flying bird 35,000 ft Deepest recorded ocean depth
Sources: divediscover.whoi.edu; Wikipedia;
cracktwo.com; ouramazingplanet.com; 36,100 ft. 35,814 ft.
buzzle.com SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHIC EDITOR; INFOGRAPHIC BY MEGAN DINNER/QMI AGENCY