Show son sea riddle unanswered it you were plumbing the depths or of the sea in the antarctic and your sounding machine come came to a sudden stop at about 1000 fathoms and as suddenly started again and ran on another 1000 fathoms or so eo what would be your explanation twice this has happened in recent antarctic exploration and the scientists who were present do not know how to explain it A very vera easy answer would be that the sounding weight landed on a whale and then falling off resumed its botto journey buethe but the trouble with this explanation Is that 1000 fathoms Is pretty deep for a surface creature like a whale pressures are enormous down there |