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CAN YOU STAND THE PRESSURE?

Math at the ocean floor

sing the amazing technology of scuba, a highly trained diver descends into the ocean deep. At a depth of 33 feet (10 m), the “squeezing” force on our elite diver’s body is already double what it was at the surface. This compressing force

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