How deep do you think the Irish sea is?

Scanlas The 2nd

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.

Eathrin

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

boodee

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

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.

wolf moon

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

WIZE

300m down is deep .

JimmyChew

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

aaronjumper

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

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.

44leto

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

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?

MagicMarker

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

44leto

That is interesting it must be the continental shelf thing.

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.

galwayrush

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

InkSlinger67

Who gives a Queen's turd!

Red Hand

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

connundrum

Thought it was about tree fiddy

seanybiker

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Who gives a Queen's turd!

Eh the queen?

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

kowloon

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

woodoo

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

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.

papermaker

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

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.

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.

irishben

Ah i cannot wait until they find oil under it.

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?

cocoshovel

woodoo wrote: »

Whats the point of any thread?

Whats the point of life?

44leto

cocoshovel wrote: »

Whats the point of life?

I like the way this thread is going.

Cookie_Monster

44leto wrote: »

I don't know I think that would be ferry spectacular.

fyp

ejmaztec

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

TheBody

How many hammer lengths are 300 metres?

woodoo

cocoshovel wrote: »

Whats the point of life?

What came before the big bang?

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.

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.

44leto

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

So 33o metres,,not bad.

holystungun9

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

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.

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!

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

ABEasy

woodoo wrote: »

cocoshovel wrote: »

Whats the point of life?

What came before the big bang?

Your ma*




















I'll get my coat....

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.

d.anthony

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

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)...

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.

dxhound2005

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

mikemac1

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

The Brits used to dump ammunition there Oh and nuclear waste

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?

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

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.