Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-22
"There is no sound, no echo Of sound,
in the deserts of the deep
Or the great gray Level plains Of ooze
where the shell-burred cables
Creep" -Kiping.

In the abysmal depths Of the At
lantic Ocean, beneath two miles Of
salt water, lie the dead that went
down with the Titanic.
Their bodies reduced to the small
ness Of a MANS wrist by the crushing
pressure Of the water, are sunk in a.
bed of Shiny red ooze, and strange,
fantastic, mud eating creatures, the
like Of which the sun never shone up
on, swim and crawl about them.
At that depth great calm reigns,
and no ray Of sunlight ever pierces.
The storms which churn the upper
waters into tumultuous fury are un-
felt, the blackness is profound and
it is always freezing cold.
-''Down in the dark, the utter dark,
where the blind white sea snakes
are"
The great steel hulk Of The Titanic
rests in this black calm of ooze, sunk
partially into it, perhaps wholly sunk
into it, for no one has ever sounded
the depths Of the layer Of soft mud
upon the bottom Of the deep sea.
1t is, a belief common among sail
OTIS and landsmen that wreck never
goes to the bottom; that it sinks I'M
til the pressure of the water holds it
fast, and there, rocking about in the
shadowy depths, it slowly dissolves.
: What food for the imagination lies
in this feet Of lost ships Of the world
still floating up and down in the
deep, meeting and passing in silence
no voice ever calling through the
dark, no sail ever rising to a breeze.
But the scientists know that what
Sir John Murray, the great explorer
Of the sea floor, said is true:
Anything that will sink in a glass
Of water" wrote Sir John Murray,
twill sink to the bottom of the Deep
est sea-"
Scientists point out that water is
one Of the most incompressible of
substances. It can be compressed
only one-twenty- thousandths Of its
bulk, and although the pressure may
be enormous at the ocean bottom
the water is only little more dense
than at its surface.
And yet the compression is so
great that if it were suddenly releas-
ed, say by the suspension of the at
traction of gravitation, and all the
water over all the globe should ex-
pand until it was Of the same pres.
sure and density everywhere as al
the surface the ocean would instant.
]y rise some five hundred feet, cover.
ing nearly all the inhabited land oil
the world.
Practically every part Of the
oceans beds without the Arctic ant
Antarctic circles has been sounde:
and explored. Sounding wires ant
leaden weights and travis of wire
netting have been lowered to The
bottom Of the sea at it's creates
depths, even to eight miles, and mut
and the creatures that live Their
have been brought up. And the lea'
sinks aus quickly through the las
mile as it did through the first.
Not all the bodies Of those drowne'
from the Titanic went down witt
her. Many put on life preserver
and these foated. II is we'll know
that stout man often floats like
cork. But all Of those sucked dow
in the vortex caused by the sinkin:
hull would go far enough to reac]
the influence Of the tremendous wa
ter pressure that would squeeze OIL
= all buoyant gases and air within tn
body and it would keep on sinking
and be compressed into a solid a
hard as stone before it had drop
ped to the depth Of a half mile.
And that body will never come III
again. It will lie upon the sea foo
until the last vestige of it is dissolved
Ages from now only the teeth, tn
hardest substance in the human bod
will remain, and even these will dis
solve in time. Deen sea dredge
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