“DEVIL’S HOLE.”
CHASMS IN NORTH SEA. LONDON, govember 20"Devil’s Hole” will shortly appear in charts of the North Sea. Fishermen .for long have complained of losing and damaging gear off the Firth of Forth; some blamed a wreck and others a bottomless abyss which tradition placed hereabouts.
The surveying sloop Fitzroy found that where the charts showed 50 fathoms (the echo-sounding apparatus recorded nearly 150 fathoms. The Fitzroy discovered two chasms on the seabottom, each ten miles long and Devil’s Hole is five miles eastward of one chasm.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 2
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