SUBMARINE MOUNTAIN.

Shannon News, 27 November 1923, Page 3

SUBMARINE MOUNTAIN.

BED OF ATLANTIC RAISED.

A noteworthy discovery has been made by an Eastern Telegraph Company's cable repairing ship in the Atlantic, on the St. Helena-Capetown route ; * The cable was laid in 1899, and had been in constant use until Aug-. ust 4, 1923. Oii that day a break was recorded at a spot some 800 miles north of the Cape, and on its arrival there the- repairing ;Ship reported to London that instead of the: dept; of water, being 2700 fathoms (1 eq. 6' feet), or just over three statute .miles, as stated in the chart, it was only a little under three-quartersvo* a mile below the surface. f Apparently, by a vast submarine convulsion, hitherto unnoticed, the ocean-bed has been lifted by as much' as two, and a-quarter miles^ The theory is held by the authorities in England that there now. exists an almost continuous range of submarine mountains, stretching from the Cape Verde Islands, with th* small' islands of Ascension and St. Helena still appearing as the highest peaks in the chain. , r