Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-28
Lurking in the
Abysmal Depths of
the Ocean, This
Grotesque
Creature Uses It's
Mysterious
Equipment of
Equipment of
THE Prince of Monaco. who draws his
revenues from the worlds greatest

"HE Prince of Monaco, who draws his
revenues from the worlds greatest
gambling den, aud who spends them
in deep sea dredging for the sake of
science. is without doubt the worlds great
est fisherman. AS such lie is entitled TO
tell. of course, the greatest fish stories.
The difference between the Prince and the
ordinary fisherman Is that the former al.
WAYS has scientific proof OF his yarns.
Therefore it is that when this royal
fisherman announces that at q depth OF al
most five miles in the ocean at a pressure
that would flatten q man like a pancake
and crush the strongest iron hulls of ships
like shells, he has found one fish with
electric light eyes and another one which
grows its skeleton on the outside OF his
body. science knows that, however weird
his story may seem, the Prince would not
say it unless he had proof.
And these monsters are the newest ones
that the Prince OF Monaco says he has
caught. Being a scientist he has given
scientific proof Of his story TO satisfy the
scientific minds of the members of the
French Academy of science.
If His IIighness held in his hand a light
trout rod. fitted with q delicate duplex reel,
he could not do his angling with greater
science than he does with his huge five
mile line and his windlass and donkey en-
f'hS III "a nlholaSoVS WOlhOo Wy
the engines and his fishing lines are espe-
cially controlled steel cables. His fishing
boat is a beautiful yacht called Princess
Louise H., which was built especially for
his oceanographic research work and is a
veritahle floating laboratory where all tho
preliminary scientific Investigations are
made
The Prince has commanded, personally,
for the past thirty-fve years, every expe.
dition that has been made.
His newly discovered monsters furnish
the first proof that science has had that
life exists at this depth in the ocean.
III connection with the discovery the
Primo Of Monaco announces also that he
has secured proof OF the existence OF Il
hitherto utterly unknown and strange ultra
violet ray which exists in the immeasur.
able abysses Of the sea and to which the
eyes of these extraordinary creatures are
sensitive. In fact, it appears that un-
guessed and ~inexplicable electric phe.
nomena are present in the four.mile and
more depths Of ocean.
The monster. with the electric eyes has
a body fifteen feet long. 1t IS shaped
somewhat like a gigantic cuttlefsh, but
with important differences. due to the
pressure Of water n which II lives. Every
hundred feet .ndeF water is equivalent 10
the pressure Of siity-four pounds upon the
square inch. The fish living five miles be-
Meath the surface Of the sea, therefore,
moves and lives under n pressure OF
10-S271s pounds to every square inch of
its surface.
The atmospheric pressure upon the
body Of a man is fifteen pounds to the
square inch, or nearly a ton-2,160 pounds
ON the square foot.
a person Of medium size will have a sur.
face equal to about sixteen square feet and
the pressure therefore which is supported
by the human body amounts to 1850
DOun1S. or not far from sixteen TONS
Consider that the fish Of the size Of a
man. living a depth Of five miles beneath
the oceans surface, carries about 722
times this weight.