USS Teuthis transits from Kodiak Island to Pt. Barrow
transits from Kodiak Island to Pt. BarrowCHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FOURCHAPTER FOURTransit to Pt. Barrow
Transit to Pt. BarrowUSS TEUTHIS—A THOUSAND FOOT LEDGE ABOVE ALEUTIAN TRENCH
USS TEUTHIS—A THOUSAND FOOT LEDGE ABOVE ALEUTIAN TRENCHUSS TEUTHISThe continental slope dropped over several miles from 300 feet to over 20,000 feet at the bottom of the Aleutian Trench. It was not exactly a cliff, but the trench’s shoreward side was cut with canyons that made Arizona’s Grand Canyon seem puny by comparison.
We conducted a slow, careful search with our secure depth-sounder, a device that used spread-spectrum sound to give us an image of the bottom beneath our keel. We located a nice, steep slope facing east with a nearly flat, thirty-yard led
