Word: seafloor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereafter, who knows ? If he reaches 15,000 ft. in his present depth vehicle, Dr. Hartman proposes an even stronger, more complicated one to reach Ocean's nethermost pit. There is known to be oil beneath parts of the seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...