700 Fathoms Under the Sea

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 thousands of miles. Whales use it, and cold warriors plumbed its secrets. Listen in: This story was produced by David Schulman in 2014. It was hosted for Transistor by Genevieve Sponsler and mixed for Transistor by Josh Swartz.

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700 Fathoms Under the Sea is an episode from Transistor by PRX.

This episode is 08:11 long.

This episode was published on Feb 7, 2017.

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