Swimmers Rock.

A fun fact occured to me while I did my geography studying today. The deepest point in the Pacific Ocean and the lowest elevation on the entire planet Earth is the Mariana Trench. The bottom of that trench is 6.7 miles from the surface of the ocean.

What makes this fun is remembering our annual 100x100's event while I was on the swim team. Every New Year's day, we'd swim 100 100-meter intervals. Hence the name "hundred hundreds." This is equal to 10,000 meters or roughly 6.3 miles.

This means that each year we swam the 100x100's, we were swimming a distance roughly equivalent to swimming to the absolute bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It usually took us about four hours.

Seen another way: the average depth of the Pacific Ocean is 2.6 miles. This means that during the day we did the 100x100's, we swam a distance equivalent to swimming to the bottom of the Pacific and back to the surface two and a half times.

How freakin' cool is that?