Word: galathea
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...