SUBMARINE CRATER
NATAL COAST DISCOVERY,
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Received June IG, 11.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 15. The liner, Athlone Castle, discovered a tremendous crater, with the pinnacle in the centre in the ocean bed, five miles off the Natal coast. The Stov echo sounder recorded flat bottom at 120 fathoms. 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 a perpendicular rise until, a minute later, the even sea bottom was reached.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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