"DEVIL'S HOLE" IN SEA BED.
The seas round the British coasts still contain many areas that have never been properly charted. Year in and year out the work of mapping the home seas goes on, and from time to time surprising discoveries are made. One of the most remarkable of these has just occurred off the mouth of the Firth of Forth. The Admiralty charts showed no greater depth in
that neighbourhood than 50 fathoms, but trawlers were always complaining of lost gear. So frequent did the complaints become that the survey ship, H.M.S. Fitzroy was sent to investigate. Using a wonderful sounding apparatus which works by means of the echo Jfrom the bottom of the sea, the Fitzroy found that the 50-fathom level came to an abrupt end, and that beyond it there was a huge hole three times as deep. A trawl falling into
the Devil's Hole, as it is called, would almost certainly be lost or badly damaged. Further explorations disclosed the presence of other deep clefts in the sea-bed.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 37, 8 May 1931, Page 6
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