TREMENDOUS CRATER.
DISCOVERY IN OCEAN BED. (Received 10. a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 15. 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 when suddenly the needle recorded a depression which developed into a precipitous fall, and the needle ran off the chart. Consequently the depth was not recorded. Then there was an almost perpendicular rise, until a minute later even the sea bottom was reached.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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