Science: Sunken City - TIME

The Lost Atlantis so lavishly described by Plato has been "found" all over the world—from Ceylon to Sweden. Last week a German clergyman was writing a report on how he had found it again—this time in the North Sea.

Late this summer a fishing boat set out from the German port of Husum. On board was scholarly Jürgen Spanuth, pastor of the Lutheran church in Ost Bordelum, a little village behind the North Sea dikes. Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific equipment. The trip was costing Pastor Spanuth 150 marks a day and would use...

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