Show TO EXPLORE RE OCEANS DEPTS DEPTHS I 1 british government contemplating an expedition tor for the gathering of scientific information the british government Is bontem plating the dispatch of a deep sea exploring expedition which Is expected to gather much valuable scientific 1 information most people imagine that tile the depths of 0 the ocean have been pretty thor i t hughly explored but this Is very fa far r from being true As ft matter of 0 fact only a very small fraction of the whole area of deep sea bottom has been surveyed attention Is particularly barly called to a vast region around the falkland islands and up BS as far as montevideo I 1 Is almost unknown and which ha having 1 I og k a depth ot of less than fa fathoms thorns may offer opportunities for the development of lucrative fisheries the first deep sea exploring expedition that of the famous challenger was set on foot just 50 years ago a go the ship left port in 1872 and ideas on tiie tho subject were in those days so primitive that there was dispute as to whether she should use wire vire or hempen rope for soundings it took a whole day to make one sounding or a single cast of the dredge tor for bring ing up fishes and other animals since then alien deep sen sea sounding apparatus has been much improved improve d D by y cable ships and fishing gear has been greatly modified by steam crawlers trawlers lers which use dredges besides a great deal that Is of value has been learned by oceanographic expeditions subsequent to that of the be challenger hence the new exploring vessel will start out with a prospect of accomplishing a very great deal of work of rest real importance I 1 |