Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1888 — Great Ocean Depths. [ARTICLE]

Great Ocean Depths.

The British surveying ship Egeria, under the command of Capt. P. Aidrich, R. N., has recently made two very deep sea soundings. According to A’uture these depths were 4,295" fathonfs and 4,430 fathoms (equal to five English miles). The latter was in latitude 24 deg. 37 min south, longitude 175 deg. 8 min. west; the former about twelve miles to the southward. The greatest known ocean depth. 4,655 fathoms, was obtained by the United States steamer Tuscarora oft’ the northeast coast of Japan. The Challenger expedition found an abyss of 4,475 fathoms south of the Ladrone islands, and the United States ship Blake discovered one of 4,561 fathoms north of Porto Rico. But the depths sounded by Capt. Aldrich exceed by more than a mile any previously found in auy o? the southern oceans. New” York Herald.

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