The Mighty Deep 



miles, his little "deep" was as a saucer beside 

 a lake. 



It is not easy to picture to ourselves the 

 changeless calm of those abysses — those five 

 or six miles of under-water, with nothing from 

 sea-level to sea-floor to break the dead monotony. 



Throughout such regions storms, no matter 

 how terrible, have no power. Winds cannot 

 reach them. When Ocean's surface is lashed 

 by a hurricane into wild commotion, that com- 

 motion is superficial. It means a furious stir- 

 ring and flurry of upper layers ; and it means 

 no more. 



If at the height of some fierce tornado, a 

 sailor could leave his tossing straining ship, and 

 could dive far into the sea, keeping breath and 

 sense and life, he would soon quit the turmoil, 

 and would find himself in a scene of deep repose. 

 Strange to say, the idea of submarine ships 

 actually doing this has been mooted, as one 

 of the new projects in the beginning of the 

 Twentieth Century. 



Wave-motion does not descend much below 

 the surface. It is believed that the depth of 

 water affected by a wave is usually about equal 

 to the space which divides crest from crest. So, 

 if we are looking at little ripples, flowing one 



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