SUBMARINE CRATER.
OFF THE COAST OF NATAL.
DISOOVERED BY ECHO SOUNDER.
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The liner Athlone Castle. discovered a tremendous crater, with a. pinnacle in the centre, in the ocean bed five miles off the Natal coast.
The echo sounder recorded a, flat bottom at 120 fathoms, but suddenly the needle recorded a. digression which developed into a precipitous fall, and the needle ran off the chart. Consequently the depth was not recorded. Then there was a pm‘pendicular rise until a minute later an even sea-bottom was reached.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 209, 17 June 1936, Page 6
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