The biggest waterfall in the world is underwater…
It might seem counter-intuitive to think that there are bodies of water within the oceans, but it’s true! Deep within the ocean, caverns and fissures on the ocean floor form when water oozes through the layers of salt beneath it. This water, filled with dissolved salt, is denser than the water around it and settles into the fissures. It’s this type of dense water that forms the Denmark Strait, a massive cascade of water that plummets 11,500 feet (more than three times the height of Angel Falls in Venezuela). This is because the colder water of the strait sinks when it collides with the less dense water around it.
