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700 Fathoms Under the Sea

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Feb 7, 201708:11Science & Medicine

This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic. Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even t...

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