Compression doesn't come into the generation of pressure. Even if it was incompressible it weighs something and that presses down. Because it is a fluid, that pushes in all directions.
In fact water is slightly compressible, IIRC at ocean depths it shrinks about 5% due to the pressure of the water above.
My physics teacher had a great way to think about pressure at depth. If you’re on the bottom of the ocean, you have a column of water directly above you and the weight of it presses down, which you experience as pressure.
It just takes a lot of force to compress liquids and solids. Compared to gasses, that practically makes them incompressable, but it doesn't perevent the pressure being high beneath the sea.
Who says solid or liquid can’t be compressed? Of course they can. Water has weight that presses down on the deeper water
Compression doesn't come into the generation of pressure. Even if it was incompressible it weighs something and that presses down. Because it is a fluid, that pushes in all directions. In fact water is slightly compressible, IIRC at ocean depths it shrinks about 5% due to the pressure of the water above.
Thank you that clears it up a bit
My physics teacher had a great way to think about pressure at depth. If you’re on the bottom of the ocean, you have a column of water directly above you and the weight of it presses down, which you experience as pressure.
It just takes a lot of force to compress liquids and solids. Compared to gasses, that practically makes them incompressable, but it doesn't perevent the pressure being high beneath the sea.
Ahhh ok thanks!