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Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...
...planes. Herr Hitler has tacitly admitted possession of an air force (TIME, March 4). Last week the naval correspondent of London's carefully conservative Morning Post did not say that Germany has any actual submarines, but he did affirm that she has an excellent new type of undersea boat on drafting boards and in the brains of capable designers. Special advantage of this blueprint craft is that it needs no storage batteries for submerged propulsion...
...enough to stick pins in the edge of a piece of paper, she worked two years for the Institute as laboratory technician. When the bathysphere first went into action in 1930. she was taken along, made a dive of 410 ft. Since then she has had the women's undersea record to herself. In 1932 she went down 1,000 ft. Last week she descended in the diving ball to 1,208 ft., not with Dr. Beebe but with Otis Barton, his handsome, truculent colleague and bathysphere designer...
...high price of gold and the march of science have combined to make treasure hunting a practical as well as a romantic pursuit. Last week famed Master Locksmith Charles Courtney, who rifled the safes of the sunken Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...
...christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared...