The Deepest Water in the World.
(Per Press Association.) Btdnbt, December 18. In the course of a survey' at the Pacific Islands the survey steamer Pen-? ' gum reports that she made- attempts to - obtain soundings near the Friendly] group, but the wire snapped at a depth ■ of 29,000 feet without the bed of the ocean being reached. This is tie deepest known water hi the world, _and;is ' nearly 1500 feet deeper tbanthe^deepestj known in the North Pacific and? 2000 - feet deeper than ' any known in ~fche North Atlantic. ' j "
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 142, 14 December 1895, Page 2
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