Why the pressure of the water is so more in the depth of the Ocean? OR Why there is so much high pressure in the Ocean water compared to small water bodies?

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Why the pressure of the water is so more in the depth of the Ocean? OR Why there is so much high pressure in the Ocean water compared to small water bodies?

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Here’s the basic math. The weight of the entire atmosphere air above you is roughly what we call “1 Bar” of pressure.

10 feet of water is also roughly 1 Bar of pressure. So just diving down to roughly the bottom of a swimming pool is enough to double all the pressure of the entire atmosphere down on you.

Now imagine the oceans depths measured in 10 foot intervals, the are easily hundreds of those intervals down to the bottom, so hundreds of times more pressure than at sea level.

The only factor in the pressure is depth, linear depth.