SUBMERGED CRATER
DISCOVERED BY LINER CLOSE TO AFRICAN COAST CAPETOWN, June 15. The liner Athlone Castle discovered a tremenduons crater with a pinnacle in the centre of the ocean bed five miles off the Natal coast. The echo sounder recorded a (lat 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 an even sea bottom was reached.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22909, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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