Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases, which came up wherever there was a small fissure in the ground. At the bottom of the crater, I walked for a few yards quite easily upon what I discovered to be a mass of hardened snow, protected by a thick strata of ashes...
Last week, the British Admiralty sold two battle cruisers, the Hindenburg and the Seydlitz, and 24 destroyers-sold them as they lie upon the bottom. They went "cheap" -from $1,250 to $7,500 each, depending less upon the size of the vessel than on the depth at which it lies. Cox & Danks, the buyers, have the business of "unscuttling" the ships and junking them. The vessels lie in from 60 to 160 ft. of water. It is one of the greatest salvaging problems which have ever been undertaken...
...novelty, but hardly a stunt, in radiocasting was turned loose upon the air by Station WIP, the Gimbel Brothers store in Philadelphia. A diver was sent down to the ocean bottom at Atlantic City. A telephone in his helmet was attached to a cable connected with the shore. Here there was an amplifier connected by telephone with the broadcasting station in Philadelphia. From the scientific standpoint there was nothing very difficult in this achievement...
...diver on the sea bottom, 50 ft. down, described what he saw. As anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...