Description

This silent color film was made on board the Soviet research vessel AKADEMIK KURCHATOV during a deep-sea expedition to the Atlantic Rift Valley in the summer of 1969. Harold E. Edgerton was a guest scientist, along with M.I.T. students James Sholer and Mike Hobart, and Steve Eittreim of Lamont Laboratories, with National Geographic Society support. Chief Soviet scientists included Gleb Udintsev and Boris Shekhvatov. Work shots showing the deployment of sonar and deep-sea camera equipment are interspersed with informal images of life at sea , stops at Dakar and the Canary Islands, and the vessel's arrival in Boston Harbor. Run time = 00:12:10. (EH, CC)