QUICK SOUNDINGS
DEPTH OF OCEAN BED ' FATHOIJETER APPARATUS _ United Service. I»ONDON, 12th October. The "Dailp Mail" says that Mr. Giles Stedmaiv.tlie navigator of the Leviathan, repoK ts successful transatlantic experiment! s with a fathometer apparatus, determining the depth in a fraction of a second, compared with from five to A fteen minutes required for each sound ing under the former system. A haa inier fitted to a ship 'a keel ■ strikes a d iaphragm, causing the emission of a s»;ries of sound waves, which travel to the ocean-bed return to the ship, and sictuate a hydrophone, producing a streal; of light on a chartroom indicator, ro vealing the depth of water on a dial. Soundings can' be taken without a slowing down.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 80, 15 October 1928, Page 9
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122QUICK SOUNDINGS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 80, 15 October 1928, Page 9
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