SEA SCIENCE
VOYAGE OF “CARNEGIE. 1
SUCCESS HOPED FOR IN THREE YEARS.
Washington. Nov. 16. Tho noil-magnetic ship. Carnegie, has left New York under tow for Washington, m complete preparation
for a three-year voyage in the course of which naiural scientists of tho Carnegie Institution, which owns the vessel, hope to obtain much vaiuamo data on the electric properties of thn sea and air. ocean currents, eondi tions varying with tho depth of the water, and atmospheric phenomena. As planned, subject to authorisation later, the tour would cover ap proximately 110,000 miles and take tho vessel into each or the oceans, aud into all latitudes between 60 degrees north and 61) south. Fur motive power, tho ship depends primarily on her sails, although she carries for emergency use a 100 horsepower gasoline engine. An important object of the c-xpeai tion is to. be determination of who ther the sea contains electrical currents similar to those passing through the land, andin turn the effect of these on compass variation. Terrestrial magnetism and its influence on the compass also will be studied together with atmospheric electric pressure and the radio activity of air and water.
Through co-operation of the Navy Department, a sonometer for determining the depths of tho ocean has been installed. With this and a winch electrically operated and capable of reaching a depth of 20,000 feet, the chemical composition and temperature of seawater at varying depths are to be studied. It is thought that data obtained in this way will have an important effect upon the study of ocean currents.
The vessel is termed “Mon-mag-netic” because in her construction no magnetic materials, with the exception of the auxiliary engine, were used, assuring a minimum of error in making electrical observations. The coming voyage, which under present plans will begin early next year, will be the Carnegie’s seventh similar expedition.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 8
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