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In the disaster movie, Airport 77, Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle and sinks to a depth of 62 meters below the ocean surface. What would be the approximate seawater pressure on the plane at these depths? Take atmospheric pressure to 1.01 x 105 Pa and the density of water as 1025 kg/m3
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