BIG SUBMARINE CRATER
DISCOVERY OFF NATAL UNFATHOMED DEPTH (Received June 16, 10.20 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, 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 echometer recorded flat bottom at 120 fathoms, and 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 an even sea bottom was reached.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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