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Andreas Feininger

Fossil remains of a trilobite, an ancient crustacean of Cambrian seas

Photo by Fritz Goro (Life)

Above: Sargassum fish in seaweed Right, above: In summer seas, billions of tiny Noctiluca gleam like stars Right, below: Camera reveals living creatures, tracks, and holes on sea floor

Douglas Wilson

Noctiluca

Lamont Geological Observatory (Columbia University)

Bottom Organisms

Official U. S. Navy Photograph

Bathyscaphe

Official U. S. Navy Photograph

In the bathyscaphe Trieste men first penetrated the greatest depths of the sea

Lamont Geological Observatory (Columbia University)

Coring tube being lowered for sample of bottom.

Fathograms: This sea mount was discovered by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey’s Pathfinder in the Gulf of Alaska; it rises 9600 feet from the ocean floor and is 857 fathoms below the surface.