How Deep are the Great Lakes?
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 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
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
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
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
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
lake erie has a great personality
@@eliasbsalas Really funny
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 live next to Lake Superior. I can see it from my window.😊 Ah, fresh air 😊😊😊😊😊
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.
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
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
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
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.
What can I say, but Superior sings in the rooms of her icewater mansion.
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
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.
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
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).
Placing Lake Superior as the 4th deepest lake in the US behind Crater, Tahoe and Chelan
How deep is your love?
Reminder to non-Michiganders, dont come looking for water in the apocalypse. We dont share
Remember that four out of five Great Lakes prefers Michigan!
Yea, but the biggest city only got a river. 😊
Gay
Missed the great salt lake bra
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
Cool, thanks for the info. I had no idea.
Lake Superior is actually an inland sea.
The great lakes sit on an ancient rift valley. It’s no wonder how deep they are
Lake superior is still only the 42nd deepest lake in the world
Alot of guns filling up lake Michigan
I have been blessed to see them and they are amazing.
Not really that deep, but very dangerous can’t believe the size of the waves and they go in those lakes
You aren’t a real bright young man are you?
@@Carl_McMelvin not very deep compared the ocean Sir
@@charlieb308 the ocean isn’t very deep compared to outer space. Try again.
@@Carl_McMelvin the USS Samuel B Roberts is 4.28 miles deep…the only thing more empty is the cavern in your head
@@charlieb308 did you eat a large bowl of paint chips this morning?
The water quality at the bottom of superior is probably amazing.
So what I am hearing is about 160 and 1/2 llamas stacked on top of each other in Lake Michigan's deepest point
The lakes were made by the last glaciers. I like you putting the depths in feet, thank you !
Lake Baikal is a lake too...
It is 5300 feet deep.
And clear!
I challenge this guys knowledge about the Great Lakes
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.
Empire state building making that O face😂
Oh man this is so hard for me. Went to the garage to measure my feet to try and understand this video and then my feet aren't equal lenghts and now I don't know what to do
Keep it going 👍
Lake Huron its said never gives up her dead.
Superior it’s said never gives up her dead.
@@greggreed3840
😂 only took 2 weeks for someone to catch this!!!
@@jefferyepstein9210 hey I just looked at the video today. 🤷♂️
Baikal lake’s max depth is 5387 feet💀
but I bet they only quote its depth in meters ;)
@@lylestavast7652 ~1600m
Who would of guessed, apparently these lakes are deeper than they are wide! Lol
how many ships are at the deepest part of Lake Superior?
The Edmund Fitzgerald was 730 feet long
What's that in double-deckers?
I didn't think they were this deep.
Ren Cen-I wonder how many people looked it up. Welcome to the D!
Lake Biakal has more water than all of the great lakes combined
I met Poseidan swimming in lake Michigan...
Superior giving Johnson vibes
is the left side Canada?
Some of those bottom out below sea level.
For comparison, Crater Lake in Oregon is 1949 feet deep, the deepest in the U.S., but this is NOTHING compared to Lake Baikal in Siberia at a whopping 5712 feet deep!
Wow, those arent nearly as deep as i thought
Oh the answer to a question no one asked😂
Go Blue!! 👍
Lake Ontario edges out Lake Huron 💀
I didn’t know that
what do these weird pictures represent,
they're definitely not to-scale 😅
Ontario edging another lake is wild
It’s like get over yourself Lake Superior
I’ve fished Lake Ontario my hole life and I’ve makes it deeper then what there saying on here!… scotch bonnet 1002 feet deep on my graph which is a Garmin graph that goes to fifteen hounded feet.
Don't listen to mass eco hysteria media; the great lakes are not drying up. Here a great video on how deep they are.
Lake Okeechobee ave 8'10" max 12 foot
They go all the way to the bottom!
Really putting that PHd to good use huh Doc?
Call the correspondence school and see if you can get your money back?
Pretty deep.
I mean they are called the great lakes for a reason
But are they really great or just not bad?
Not sure where I read it, but L. Superior isn't really a lake given its specifics, but an inland Sea.
I always assumed they were 1 great lake'a depth deep yknow?
Huron has deeper spots than what you said, and I'm sure the others are the same ya mo!
Not thinking about the water pushing down
Wow
There is one lake with a volume roughly equal to these five put together. That would be Lake Baikal in Russia.
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare them all to the same thing?
Remember kids if your trying to ditch a body lake superior is the way to go
Great Slave Lake is more than 2000 ft deep.
210ft would NOT cover a football field turned vertically…
There are 100 yards between end zones and there 3 feet per yard so that is 3x100=300 feet between end zones 🤦♂️
Lake Erie has claimed more ships 🚢
And lake superior would easily swallow The Edmits Fitzgerald
How about average depth.
The Empire State Building is 1454 feet tall
How many elephants?
Lake Michigan is still the goat
Now do lake Baikal
5,387'
Anything but a kilometre
Why the fuck would he say anything about a kilometer? Dumb comment.
All the measurements are American basically lol but a lot of these are Canadian or shared like c’mon dude
Superior took out the Edmund Fitzgerald. Not getting me out on that Lake. Swam in it YEARS ago after a 100 degree plus Summer. My legs became numb after 10 minutes.
But size doesn’t matter. It’s girth not depth
Just the tip
No meters, no like
Only? Lol
Respect the Great Lakes..or theyll take you away.
Lake Superior is hung.
Bro😂 those lakes aren’t that small in surface area. You’re trying to fool us.
Lake Baikal Outdoes them all. The great lakes have natural beauty that spreads out for hundreds on miles. Some of the most beautiful places I've ever been are on the great lakes. Some of the best sunsets on Earth ate on the Great lakes.
That settles it: Lake Michigan it is for tire disposal.
Lake Chelan is deep too
What about Seneca lake in New york Sampson state park
618 feet at the deepest point
What about it? This video is about the Great Lakes.
@Willie-wf7vj it's part of the finger lakes/ great lakes