A word study of "ma’yan" (fountain, KJV) found in Genesis 7, 8 shows that the word would there be better translated "reservoir." It makes more sense that a container would be broken up than a jet of water. The reservoir that contains the deep (global oceans) is the oceanic depressions on the crust of the earth. It is the crust that was broken up causing massive tectonic movement and associated tsunami catastrophe–i.e., The Flood