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How deep do you think the Irish sea is?

  • 20-01-2012 9:42pm
    #1
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭


    At it deepest it's only 300m.

    I always thought it would be at least a few miles deep. I find it's shallowness hard to accept.


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  • #2
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    Ireland and the UK would have been one landmass at some stage, I don't find it that unbelievable.


  • #3
    boodee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭boodee


    Accept it man......we're shallow as a nation.


  • #4
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Deep enough to separate them from us, but still let us go and take their jobs while disliking them. So, the perfect depth really.


  • #5
    wolf moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    Shallowness of this thread is what I find hard to accept...


  • #6
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    300m down is deep .


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  • #7
    JimmyChew
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭JimmyChew


    984ft pretty ****in deep when you consider the distance between the two landmasses


  • #8
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Damn I thought this was going to be a fun guessing game but you just gave away the answer!


  • #9
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    WIZE wrote: »
    300m down is deep .

    For a swimming pool yes, for a sea or ocean it's shAllow as far as I'm concerned.


  • #10
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Jaysus 300 meters so if I dived off a boat I may hit my head of the bottom.


  • #11
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    For a swimming pool yes, for a sea or ocean it's shAllow as far as I'm concerned.

    No big plans for the weekend then, no?


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  • #12
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Azov


  • #13
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    That is interesting it must be the continental shelf thing.


  • #14
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    44leto wrote: »
    Jaysus 300 meters so if I dived off a boat I may hit my head of the bottom.

    At the Kisk bank, its only 10m deep. Mad, seeing as you are so far out at sea.


  • #15
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    What dept does it have to be to geographically divide this island fron the British Isles? Geographically speaking of course.:D:D


  • #16
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    Who gives a Queen's turd!


  • #17
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    If you have the confidence OP, you can walk on the Irish Sea.:D


  • #18
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Thought it was about tree fiddy


  • #19
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    InkSlinger67 wrote: »
    Who gives a Queen's turd!

    Eh the queen?


  • #20
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Eh the queen?

    I'm picturing a vending machine. Tho I'm kinda disturbed that I have to put a Queen's head into the Queen to receive said turd

    F*ck it, I'm completely disturbed for thinking that way in the first place :confused:


  • #21
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    An atmosphere pressure for every 10 and a bit metres down though.


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  • #22
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    The empire state building is 381m high. The twin towers were 415m high. They would have been sticking out of the Irish sea.


  • #23
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    woodoo wrote: »
    The empire state building is 381m high. The twin towers were 415m high. They would have been sticking out of the Irish sea.

    But you just wouldn't get the same visual impact crashing a boat into them.


  • #24
    papermaker
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭papermaker


    Sorry....over my head that one,I'm afraid:D


  • #25
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    super_furry wrote: »
    But you just wouldn't get the same visual impact crashing a boat into them.

    I don't know I thing that would be fairly spectacular.


  • #26
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Whats the point of this thread? Why does it matter if its "only" 300m deep? Do you even realize how deep that is? I reckon op has no sense of distance/depth. It can be 100ft deep for all I care, we're not in competition with anyone over it.


  • #27
    irishben
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭irishben


    Ah i cannot wait until they find oil under it. :p


  • #28
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Whats the point of this thread? Why does it matter if its "only" 300m deep? Do you even realize how deep that is? I reckon op has no sense of distance/depth. It can be 100ft deep for all I care, we're not in competition with anyone over it.

    Whats the point of any thread?


  • #29
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    woodoo wrote: »
    Whats the point of any thread?

    Whats the point of life?


  • #30
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Whats the point of life?

    I like the way this thread is going.


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  • #31
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    44leto wrote: »
    I don't know I think that would be ferry spectacular.

    fyp


  • #32
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,111 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    If we fill it full of ghost estates, we can drive across it.


  • #33
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭TheBody


    How many hammer lengths are 300 metres?


  • #34
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Whats the point of life?

    What came before the big bang?


  • #35
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    At it deepest it's only 300m.

    I always thought it would be at least a few miles deep. I find it's shallowness hard to accept.

    That's why they allowed us to call it the Irish Sea.


  • #36
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    woodoo wrote: »
    What came before the big bang?

    We cant comprehend what was before the big bang unless we forget the concept of nothing as nothing is a term holding humans imaginations back, nothing doesnt exist.


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  • #37
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    OP fret not with Global warming and the Antarctic melting it will rise another 30 metres.

    So 33o metres,,not bad.


  • #38
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    300m, this is just too upsetting for me. Where to from here?


  • #39
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Brother was telling me he was getting the ferry to Shirkin Island and he was talking to some girl when he said 'I wonder how deep the water goes', she replies 'right down to the bottom I suppose' but she wasn't joking.


  • #40
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    We're doing better than the English. All they have is a Channel and its probably not much deeper.
    We have a whole ****ing sea bitches!


  • #41
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    At it deepest it's only 300m.

    I always thought it would be at least a few miles deep. I find it's shallowness hard to accept.

    a few miles, the mariana trench is only just over 6.5 miles deep and thats the deepest part of any ocean on earth


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  • #42
    ABEasy
    Registered Users Posts: 566 ✭✭✭ABEasy


    woodoo wrote: »
    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Whats the point of life?

    What came before the big bang?

    Your ma*




















    I'll get my coat....


  • #43
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    we should build giant sea barriers shown in red on this map then pump out the irish sea and claim the land and fill it up with construction and demolition waste and sand (to bulk up most of that 300metres depth) then cover it over with plenty of imported top soil. Would be great farming land. Then grow biofuel crops on it.

    uk-and-ireland-map.gif


  • #44
    d.anthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭d.anthony


    Does the sheer volume of water scare the shíte out of anyone else or is it just me?


  • #45
    marketty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    somefeen wrote: »
    We're doing better than the English. All they have is a Channel and its probably not much deeper.
    We have a whole ****ing sea bitches!

    I've seen a decorative/antique type map in an English persons house that had the 'Irish Sea' and the 'British Ocean' (ie the channel)...


  • #46
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    marketty wrote: »
    I've seen a decorative/antique type map in an English persons house that had the 'Irish Sea' and the 'British Ocean' (ie the channel)...

    for a while the brits pretty much did own most of the ocean.... then the commonwealth fell apart slowly.


  • #47
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAiYLTiBiDk


  • #48
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Isn't there some realy deep trench up around Larne?

    The Brits used to dump ammunition there Oh and nuclear waste


  • #49
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Isn't there some realy deep trench up around Larne?

    The Brits used to dump ammunition there Oh and nuclear waste

    Is there?


  • #50
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Seems so
    Beaufort's Dyke is the sea trench between Northern Ireland and Scotland within the North Channel. The dyke is 50 km long, 3.5 km wide and 200–300 metres deep.

    Because of its depth and its proximity to the Cairnryan military port, it became the United Kingdom's largest offshore dump site for conventional and chemical munitions after the Second World War; in July 1945, 14,500 tons of 5-inch artillery rockets filled with phosgene were dumped in Beaufort's Dyke


  • #51
    Batsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    It's hard to believe that it is just 984ft deep at its deepest. That's the equivalent of almost 6 Nelson's Columns stacked on top of each other.

    nelsons_column_looking_towards_westminster_trafalgar_square_london.jpg


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