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...Heezen and Ewing reconstructed what must have happened on that day of undersea commotion. The sea bottom near the epicenter of the quake is rather irregular with many comparatively steep slopes of loose material. The quake must have jolted this detachable stuff, starting slumps and landslides that cut the nearest cables at about the same time...
Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...
...Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific equipment. The trip was costing Pastor Spanuth 150 marks a day and would use up most of his savings, but he thought the expense would be justified. He was after the biggest treasure of all, the glittering undersea remains of Atlantis, which he was convinced from his readings of Greek and Egyptian lay just beyond the dikes of his own village...
...these troubled waters. His hero is the skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot at the tugboats...
...Pacific and Indian Oceans, unlike the Atlantic, would be divided into a number of small seas. Large undersea ridges or plateaus would be exposed forming new land bridges and continents between the Antarctic and other continents...