Davy Jones's Locker
E of the Science at Your Service series in which I was particularly interested dealt with the Ocean Deeps. There is something awe-inspiring about a description of these vast areas of water; something alarming about such figures as those given, regarding certain great deeps which have been measured by sonic apparatus and found to lie beneath anything from three to five miles of water. Dr. Guy Harris, the speaker, became dramatic in his account of those dark, cold, silent submarine worlds where
under appalling pressure life yet exists, and the creatures of the abyss have acclimatised themselves to their, weird conditions. A passage or two from Dr. Beeby’s account of his descent in the steel sphere in 1934 revealed the existence of a life more strangely subhuman than can well be realised by landwellers. Yet there is no difference, for the voyager, between crossing the Emden Deep and crossing Cook Strait; one can drown in six fathoms, six hundred, or six thousand,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 394, 10 January 1947, Page 10
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165Davy Jones's Locker New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 394, 10 January 1947, Page 10
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