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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 10

Trunks of seaweed 18 inches in circumference, with branches and leaves like a tree, were discovered recently by a botanist in the Antarctic Ocean. It remains to be proved whether they can be used as firewood. Unmapped jungles of vegetation lie beneath the waves. Dr > William Bebe, the marine explorer, glimpsed a real forest of seaweed when investigating, in his bathysphere, the continental shelf off the coast of Chile. Some of the stems towered to a height of 600 feet, three times higher than - the worm's tallest tree. Inexperienced voyagers often mistake the enormous drifting masses of seaweed that appear at their thickest every summer in the Sargasso Sea for islands.