(September 28, 2013 at 12:23 pm)John V Wrote: Why?To submerge the earth up to the top of every mountain would require that much water. Mount Everest is almost 4 1/2 miles in the sky. the average depth of the ocean is just over 2 1/2 miles deep. Water covers 70% of our planet and equates to about 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. Imagine going 4.5 miles above sea level.
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov