CRATER IN OCEAN BED
RECORDED BY SHIP'S ECHO SOUNDER NEEDLE RUNS OFF CHART Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, June 15. (Received June 16, at 10.30 a.m.) 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 echo sounder recorded a flat bottom at 120 fathoms, suddenly the needle recorded a depression, which developed into a precipitous fall i and the needle 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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Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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102CRATER IN OCEAN BED Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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