TREMENDOUS SEA CRATER
PINNACLE IN CENTRE
DISCOVERY OFF NATAL
DEPTH NOT RECORDED
{Blec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 16, 11.20 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 15.
• The. liner Athlone Castle discovered a tremendous crater with a pinnacle in the centre of. 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, 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 5
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100TREMENDOUS SEA CRATER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 5
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