Millard County Chronicle | 1912-04-25 | Page 2 | Bodies at Bottom of Sea

BODIES AT B0TT:M CF SEI 1 Prof. R. W. Wed Says There Wai 1 No 6tcpping on Downward 1 Course. nalttmore. Md.. April 1 "The bodies of tbe victims or the Titanic 1 are at the bottom of the deep never to 1 leave it." declared Prof. Hubert W Wood of the chair of experimental 1 physics of Johns Hopkins university 1 "It is unlikely that any of the ' eorpses will ever return to tbe sur ' face, as is the rate with bodies I drowned in shallow water. I t "At the depth of two miles the pressure pres-sure of tbe water is something like 1,000 pounds to the square Inch, wblcb la far loo great to be overcome by 1 buoyancy ordinarily given drowned 1 bodies by the gases generated In ' time. i "That the bodies sank to tbe bot t torn of the sea there Is no question," be continued. "The Tltanic's victims who were not carried down with tbe boat followed until tbe very bottom 1 of tbe eea was reached. There was : bo such thing as tbelr stopping in I (heir downward course a half mil a 1 mile or at any other point" '