How an Underwater Bomb in Australia Was Heard Around the World
In 1960 , scientist did one of those experiments that just are n’t allowed any longer . For the sake of scientific discipline , they blew up three 3oo - lb anti - submarine turkey off the glide of Australia . A listening place 10,000 miles by in Bermuda — on the accurate other side of the planet — waited . And waited . And , about three and a half hour subsequently , they fancy the radar target that confirmed their conjecture : Yes , sound in the ocean really can travel across the reality ....