BED OF PACIFIC OCEAN Photographs Taken By Russians
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, Mar. 18.
Russian oceanologists surveying the Kermadec deep, to the north of New Zealand, photographed the bed of the Pacific ocfean at a depth of 9960 metres (32,697 feet), the Soviet news agency. Tass. said today. Each square centimetre of camera was subjected to a pressure of 22041 b at that depth. This invaluable deep sea photograph was taken from the research ship Votyaz with a stereoscopic camera designed by a member of the expedition, Mr Nikita Zenkevich, an engineer from the Institute of Oceanology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences.
The newspaper “Sovetskaya Rossiya” today published a similar photograph taken near the Equator at a depth of 9360 metres (30,708 feet).
The photograph clearly shows rocks and tracks of worm-like creatures unknown to science, Tass said.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 16
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