700 Fathoms Under the Sea
Transistor
English - February 07, 2017 21:13 - 9.38 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.