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What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

because water is fairly incompressible, the density of sea water doesn't change much as you go down

Therefore no there isn't a depth where the weight of the seawater above compresses the water to a density equal to that of the bowling ball