Yacht To Explore Holes
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In Pacific Floor
PURCHASED early this year by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the U.S. racing yatch Serena has recently been completely refitted as an ocean going laboratory, to explore the deepest holes in the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Built 13 years ago, she is 108 tons and is equipped with a 20,000 fathom reel and other scientific apparatus. It is indicated that, before she goes into ser vice in the South Seas, in 1938, her name probably will be changed to Car negie, in memory of the Institute’s scientific yacht that blew up when her gasoline tanks were being filled at Apia, Western Samoa, in November, 1929.