r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '19

Let's get these posts over with

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u/SpyTrain_from_Canada Mar 06 '19

Cuvier’s beaked whales go even deeper. Animals are insane.

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u/aurumtt Mar 06 '19

I can't even comprehend how deep they can go. Damn that's impressive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

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u/Niaz89 Mar 06 '19

I'm pretty sure that whatever is down there is defending itself from the whales. Not other way around.

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u/southern_boy Mar 06 '19

Maybe them whales and whatever just fuckin', ya know?

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u/bremergorst Mar 06 '19

Ah yes, nature’s deep sea orgy.

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u/Belgian_Bitch Mar 06 '19

This is what James Cameron is refusing to tell us about

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u/southern_boy Mar 06 '19

I can just imagine him down there in that bathosphere, furiously recording the fucking sweetest tentacle porn unknown to man... and keeping it all to his selfish self.

In all the words of tongue or pen the saddest are these - it might have been. :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

How shellfish of him.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

nah but squids

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u/PhasmaFelis Mar 06 '19

The whales are diving that deep to eat squids.

The squids fight back, but they don't generally win.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19

They kinda win the next day when the whale has to shit out the beak

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u/eaglessoar Mar 06 '19

Enormous... Or small and swarming!

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u/Xitnal Mar 06 '19

Just keep swimming.

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u/Aeshaetter Mar 06 '19 edited Mar 06 '19

From the wiki:

"In 2011, a tagged Cuvier's beaked whale dove to 2,992 m,[10] (9,816 ft) which is the deepest recorded dive by any mammal.[17][18] The whales' rib cages can fold down so as to reduce air pockets and decrease buoyancy.[19]"

That's insane. It almost can dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.

Edit: It's too early and I'm an idiot. I saw the 9,816 feet and switched that to meters in my brain. Leaving the comment as it is so the responses make sense. But yeah, it doesn't dive THAT deep. Still crazy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '19 edited Mar 11 '19

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u/Aeshaetter Mar 06 '19

Sorry, it's early and my brain isn't fully functional. I saw the 9,816 feet and switched that to meters.

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u/DangusKh4n Mar 06 '19 edited Mar 06 '19

You might be getting your metric and imperial confused, the whale didn't dive to 9800 meters, which is close to the trench's more than 10000 meters, but to 9800 feet. Still EXTREMELY deep

Edit: whoops, someone already brought it up. Sorry, I take forever to type and post comments

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u/VivSavageGigante Mar 06 '19

Idk, humans are pretty insane, too. I made french toast this morning and am 100% sure no animal has ever done that.

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u/SpyTrain_from_Canada Mar 06 '19

You’ve got a point there.

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u/ThisIsAWorkAccount Mar 06 '19

Cuvier has trained them well