Seeing the Sea-Floor
How many times, boating and rowing about our coasts, have you wished you could see down beyond the ripples to the clear still depths so full of colour and treasures and life? It is a simple matter to make a water glass. Get an old piece of tin piping (a funnel in shape, broad at the bottom
end, is even better, of course) bend the edges at the bottom end, fit in a piece of thick clear glass and weight it with a ring of lead, hammered roughly to the size required. The fishermen of Norway use this simple method of examining the sea-floor continuously. If they did not many valuable shoals of fish would escape their nets altogether.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 20, 10 November 1939, Page 45
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