SUBMARINE CRATER
DISCOVERY OFF NATAL COAST DEPTH NOT ASCERTAINED CAPETOWN, June 15. The liner Athlone Castle discovered a tremendous crater with its pinnacle in the eeutre in the ocean bed five miles off the Natal eoast. The eeho 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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87SUBMARINE CRATER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 7
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