12376 meters !

This is the deepest hole ever dug by the man on earth.

Ever wondered the significance of this huge number ? Look at the below facts and decide for yourself.

1.8m (6 ft) - Depth of a coffin that is usually buried under the earth.

6m( 20 ft) - Maximum depth for the metal detectors to pick up signals below the earth.

20m(66 ft) - Depth of ‘The Paris Catacombs’ , an underground tunnel in France where the remains of more than 6 million people is held.

35m(114 ft) - Y 40 The Deep Joy, deepest swimming pool in the world, located in Padua, Italy

100m(328 ft) - This is the point within which the governments usually buries the nuclear waste.

105.5m(346 ft) - Depth of Arsenalna, deepest underground metro station in the world located in Ukraine.

122m(400 ft) - Wild Fig tree located in Echo caves, South Africa was found to have deepest roots penetrated at this point.

220m(720 ft) - Congo River, Africa . The maximum depth of the deepest river in the world.

287m(942 ft) - Eiksund Tunnel, located in Norway is considered to be the deepest road tunnel ever built by man.

392m(1286 ft) - Woodingdean Well ,situated in UK , holds the record for the Deepest hand dug well in the world.

700m(2297 ft) - Chilean mining accident . In 2010, 33 miners were trapped for 69 days at this depth.

970m(3182 ft) - Bingham Canyon mine , deepest open pit mine located in US. Burj Khalifa placed at its centre would still be few hundred metres shorter than this mine.

1410m(4626 ft) - Deepest concert ever happened underground by the band named Agonizers.

1642m(5387 ft) - Depth of the deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal.

1857m(6092 ft) - Deepest part of Grand Canyon.

2197m(7208 ft) - Krubera cave, situated in Georgia, is considered to be the deepest cave in the world having this depth.

2450m(8040 ft) - Gotthard Tunnel located in Switzerland, is the deepest train tunnel on earth.

3600m(11811 ft) - Halicephalobus mephisto , a muticellular organism found alive at this deepest point.A little below this at 4000m temperature is assumed to be at 65 degree celsius.

10994m(36070 ft) - Challenger deep, Deepest point of the Pacific Ocean.

11887m(39000 ft) - This is the average altitude of an airplane flying in the sky.

We humans have surpassed the depth of mariana trench and gone even below this to have dugged the deepest hole on the earth.

12262m( 40229 ft) - Kola Superdeep bore, is a drilling project initiated by Russia with an attempt to dig deeper into the earth and reached this point. The drilling was stopped as the temperature below this was 180 degree celsius making it unfeasible for the equipments.

This is so deep that you can actually place 15 Burj Khalifa’s(World’s tallest building) on top of each other in this hole.

Records are made to be broken….

12376m(40640 ft) - Z-44 Chayvo oil well broke this record in 2012 when it reached deeper at this point within 2 months

Having gone more than 40000 ft under the earth , we were still able to get to only 1/3rd of the earth’s crust.