"SUNKEN MEADOW OF DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 113, 16 May 1925, Page 24

"SUNKEN MEADOW OF DEATH.

The Atlantic's "meadow.'of death" is the description given by one writer of the dread Sargasso Sea, which lies about midway between Africa and the United States of America, l-'ew ships have ever explored the heart of the Sargasso Sea and returned again (o port. HWdreds, perhaps thousands, have: remained entombed there. It guards its tragic secruts jealously. Early I his year an expedition fbl out from New York hi the si amship Arcturus to explore the mysteries of the Sargasso Sea. The vessel is manned by an" especially-picked pailv of scientists, headed by the famous Dr. William Beebe. and sponsor-d by the New York Zoological Society. Prior tv her departure for the weedy lake in midAtlantic, the Arcluriis" was refitted at Hobokcn iviMi specially-desiyiH d weedproof propellers to enable her to cut through U;e ocean jungle safely. She was also equipped with submarine windows in her lower sides ami bottom, through which scientific observations can be made. A prow platform resembling the cow-catcher of a locomotive was installed, and made lowerable to a point from which specimens can be scooped up as the ship proceed?. Diving apparatus is carried for work in shallow wafers, and the vessel has on board all known devices for deep-sea dredging. The equipment, it is stated, also includes a fleet, of small boats, some of them glnssboltonied.