How Deep Are Oil Rigs?

If you put Mt. Everest into the water upside down, there would still be over a mile before you got to the bottom. It’s roughly the average cruising altitude of a 737 airplane! But if that’s true… then how do we build oil rigs in it? How deep are they?Turns out, INSANELY DEEP. Let me show you. Hopefully, we’re moving toward a world that uses less and less oil. But our ability to build mind-blowing technology is also what helps us make that transition – with offshore wind farms and massive solar installations and better batteries and much more. People can build astonishing things. This short is part of Huge If True, our optimistic show about science and tech. We just made a longer episode all about mapping our oceans! Subscribe to support us and to see more.