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Last week the Galathea, bossed by Bruun, put into San Francisco after 18 months at sea. Her scientists had explored the least known places still left on earth: the "deeps" in the bottoms of the oceans...
Deep Life-Chain. What supports life six miles below the sunlight? Dr. Bruun thinks he has at least a preliminary answer. Down from the surface water, he says, drops a nourishing rain of dead and dying creatures that grew in the life-giving sunlight. They are eaten over & over by hungry, blind creatures below. But always something remains: excrement of excrement and tough organic matter that only bacteria would appreciate...
...Galathea took, in all, about 16,000 specimens ranging from bottom ooze to a young sea elephant, captured on Campbell Island near New Zealand. This specimen has been named Sir Anton after Dr. Bruun. He eats ten pounds of fish a day, lives in the officers' bathroom, and has just recovered from bronchitis...
...much-desired specimen eluded the Galathea. In 1930, while on the research ship Dana, Dr. Bruun caught a larval eel six feet long, which is now at a Copenhagen museum. The larvae of ordinary eels are fragile, transparent things three to four inches long, but when they grow up they reach four feet. Dr. Bruun's larva by analogy should grow up into a monster more than 100 feet long...
...years Dr. Bruun, like Captain Ahab pursuing Moby Dick, has been on the trail of such a monster eel. He thinks that the Galathea did not search in the right places. The deeps are too poor in food to support large creatures. On some future expedition he hopes to comb the more promising waters of the continental slopes, and perhaps latch on to a grown-up eel as big as the legendary sea serpent...