CRATER IN SEA BED
♦ DISCOVERY OFF COAST OF NATAL CAPE TOWN, June 15. The Union Castle 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. Suddenly the needle recorded a depression, which developed into a precipitous fall, and the needle then ran off the chart. Consequently, the depth was not recorded. Then there was a perpendicular rise until a minute later an even sea bottom was reached.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 8
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