Down and down at 1.5 meters per second. It takes over a minute to go as deep as a football field. After 3 long minutes we are 270 meters (885 feet) below the surface and still a long way to go. It is getting cold and dark. There is some light down here but not much. There is almost 3 football fields of water above us. Ifour calculations are correct the pressure here is 355 pounds per square inch, or 24 atmospheres. There is over 51,000 pounds pressing on every square foot of the whale's body..more at Beautiful Deep Ocean Life