Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1927, Page 11

FLOOR UNMAPPED Spots as Large as United States Have Never Been Sounded by Vessels. Scattered through the broad rea of the Pacific Ocean are many spots on the floor of the greatest sea on the | globe where man has never found hottom. Spaces exist in the Pacific where the United States could be dropped into depths whose distance from the surface is known only in| places spaced 250 miles apart. Other places have been found where a con tinent as large as Australia could he | placed in a part of the ocean whose depth 1s unknown to man. | Even though the introduction of the | monic depth finder has revolutic ed | the science of finding deep spots in| the floor of the ocean and charting the | depths almost as accurately as moun-| tain ranges are charted above the sur face, there are many spots in the vast reaches of the western ocean. far off the beaten travel lanes. depth-finding device has eve the secret of the ocean floor Vast Chasms Known. Such well known deeps as t carora Deep, discovered in 1 the U. S. S, Tuscarora, mar near Japan. and the great deep near the Aleutian Islands, named the Aleu tian Deep. have become famous. but| who knows that there are not other | and deeper holes in the floor of the ocean than these tremendous chasms 5 miles and more under the surfac where the light of day never pen- trates and primeval forms of life vege- tate and live their brief span of exist- ence in the ooze of the ocean floos These questions are raised hy hydrog raphers as they surwey the hydro- graphic map of the Pacific Ocean be-| tween the western borders of the| United States and the small islands | which dot the ocean expanses. | Two years ago the mnaval \'pssnrsf Hull and Maryland, equipged with the | sonic depth finder, charted the floor of | A the ocean in a direct line from San | Francisco to Honolulu, another line from Honolulu to Pago Pago. Samoa ¢ another line from Pago Pago to Auck- | land, New Zealand, and still another U line from Pago Pago to Cape Howe, |l Ausfralia. Two, rs earlier the|r Howe, another Na ft. charted | ¢ the bottom of the Pacific from Pago |former gener Tago to Sydney. Austrs Record Set in 1 The greatest was found in 1925, by the M on a line about half wa. moa and and. depth finder recorded a d fathoms. more than 5 mile greatest depth was found b: of the where where the shores of the tropical isla thil furnishing authentic measureme sloped pidly off to 4,145 fathoms, dropping tremendo: Yet G. W States Hydrographic Offic there are oth veat deeps whose bot- | tom has never sheen explored. even by the rema finder. Here of the Pacific hole in the ocean floor. he charts of 50 years ago, when |Japan was discove gan to be meas- carora Deep deep-sea soundings pth on these lnes| .. gonip of the ocean, that would v between Sa- | ify the | doubtless based upon misleading ap- pth of 4505 | \oarance of the surface of the sea, | was to the United States Navy a rec viand just off I ognized obligation which resu most straight down to this | the depths of thi: |expanse exceeds Littlehales of the Unifed [miles the total land surface of the declares | globe. Tuscarora ran the first t ably accurate sonic depth | lines of soundings in the what Mr. Littlehales | course of which the Aleutian Deep was | P; found and the great trough bordering THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGLON, D. C, AUGUST 21, 1927—PART 1. : : * SAN FRANCISCO HAWAIIAN, 255 a5, . VD S o Above: Map of that area in the North Pacific between North America Australia, there are no recorded soundings. Below Maryland. v: How the Pacific bottom lies between Honolulu and Pago Pago. 1 single authentic sounding is recorded. ‘Besides giving the measurement of a depth, a sounding must be ac companied by two additional co- ordinates determining its position, since such a measurement applied only to one place on the globe; and to be useful in defining configura- tion, a sounding must be attended with other soundings at intervals apart bearing a suitable relation to the dimensions of the orographical forms whose configuration is sought to bel developed. | Fleet Got Much Data. formative influence upon | those engaged in measuring deep-sea | soundings, the Hydrographic Offic undertook an_investigation to deter- | mine the form and dimepnsions of the | continent of Australia in which not l‘ | “As a materials of the crust of the earth, | that could be raised from the depths of the ocean to a culmination in prox- | imity to the surface, with sufficfent | crushing strength to remain standing | under its own weight and the weight | of the superincumbent body of | on the principle that if the inte hetween soundings were regulated to | disclose the presence of the slenderest | formation that could stand, then any | orographical formation might | cedings of the First Pan. | nce Congress, held in Hono: Pacitie Se lulu, in 1920, The never failing stream of deep- | soundings from national and ins | dering or having interests in the P , among which those of tha United < have maintained a leading part, | r by vear advancing the once | | distant prospect of mapping the con formation and topography of t }Vr'm of the Pacific Ocean to a n | stage of feasibility, as when, in 1925, | the United $ eet, from the voy. |age to Australia and New Zealand | | brought home about 6,000 se —many of them from regions fathomed before that time. | And it is with satisfaction that | ittention may be turned to the un numbe thousands of soundings on | | the continental shelf where the dili- | gent labors of hydrographers have made the coastline of the world the | best known of world's major geog- | raphical features."” e 1 i ] ot Florida all the mackerel anish and Asia, where in areas as large as produced in the United From soundings in 1925 by U. S. 8. wred in the Pacific Ocean, were incum- | U sered with symbols to represent the many hundreds of reports of doubtful | dangers that had come down from ations of navigators. v Took Up Work. lsta To furnish evidence, by measuri sins, or disprove these reports, often d in service becoming the pion: great ocean, whose 10,000,000 square “It was in 1873 that the U. S. 8 nsoceanic cifie, in the | Cor; ed and named Tus- afterward oon S. 8. Narragansett route from Hawaii to Australic. Hydrographlc Mfice have thus become, by natural de velopment, the repository sumulated information with respe | the configuration of the oceanic ba- and in them .may facts of observation that selves to the delineation of the iso- | bathic contours. Part May Be Mapped. ough where sounded charts of the of the here are re n, as in the tract between in 38 d States destroyers Hull to be found the lend them ons of t the number and distri- n of the sounds are sufficient for | st approximation to the mapping f1of the conformation of the bottom of the oce: fornia and Hawail and other regions where an even greater degree of com- pleteness has been reached, as in th e of the surv United , by the | and of a tract of the bottom of the c Ocean 34,000 square miles in extent, bordering the coast of Califor- nia from San Francisco to San Diego the {and extending oceanward to a depth Everything in Season—Driced in Reason’ athoms, vet in general it is B T i le to draw the contours of the configuration, because, on account of the sparseness of the soundings, conjecture everywhere arises in at- tempting to do so, and there still re- t areas in this ocean that | are entirely without soundings. 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