Laurentian Abyss

The Laurentian Abyss is an underwater depression off the eastern coast of Canada in the Atlantic Ocean, at least 6,000 meters in depth.

Fiction

Transformers (2007) film

The United States government dropped all of the defeated Decepticons into the Laurentian Abyss. It was hoped that the extreme pressure and temperature of the Abyss would destroy bodies of the Decepticons, hiding the evidence from the unknowing populace of Earth. Transformers

Revenge of the Fallen movie

Things did not work out as the government had planned, as the Constructicons, Ravage and Scalpel dived down to Megatron's resting place and reactivated him with a piece of the AllSpark. Rapidly surfacing, Megatron rammed into and destroyed the U.S.S. Topeka, a submarine assigned to guard the area. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Notes

• John Keller calls the abyss the deepest point on Earth... but in reality, this is untrue. The Mariana Trench is over twice as deep as the Laurentian.
• In Alliance issue #2, the Decepticons are transported across the country to an aircraft carrier in San Diego. San Diego is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. In the 2007 film, Keller reports that they are going to be dropped into the Laurentian Abyss. Which is in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, either the aircraft carrier with the Decepticons is going to cruise down the Panama Canal, and all the way back up north to the Abyss and drop them there like Keller said, or they will be dropped somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, like the Mariana Trench.
• Decepticons are tough. You could understand Megatron and the Constructicons being hardy enough to withstand the immense water pressure, but for spindly little things like Ravage and Scalpel to not only survive but move around unhindered...
  • Fish move around unhindered at that depth, too. This is because fluids and of course solids are uncompressable. Transformers do not breathe, so there is no reason why there should be any gas in their body. And therefore, the pressure would actually be no factor, since it presses on them equally from all directions; apart from the added friction of the water, they would move the same way as above water.

External links

• Laurentian Abyss at Wikipedia