Hi, Dean and All.
Sorry I've not been very communicative of late, but I've had a pretty severe attack of Asian Flu, which has knocked me about rather badly. But I think I'm on the mend again now and just about ready to start posting again.
Regarding your continuing search of the Arctic for the North Polar Hole. I personally believe it is there, right at the polar location. You may recall my mentioning, late last year on Jan's list, that the Scandinavian and Russian polar survey teams had located a very deep hole or pit which was more or less bottomless to their sonar and radar equipment, since the lower part of it was filled with all sorts of marine detritus, thateffectively masked out any definitive bottom-sounding beyond a couple of miles down? I've searched around for further update data on this particular hole, but I guess they must have left it at that, and haven't repeated the sounding .
However, after reading Matt and Kev Taylor's excellent book, my interest was re-awakended, as they give an excellently reasoned explanation why such Earth "shell"-penetrating holes cannot easily be discovered, and that they probably exist in many regions of the world's oceans - particularly in such "jinxed" locations as the "Bermuda Triangle", and the
"Devil's Sea" in the western Pacific, to mention just a couple of locations where weird things tend to happen.
You really need to treat yourselves to a copy apiece, as the great diagrams alone, which illustrate the points raised in the text, are so clearly self-explanatory you will wonder why these solutions never occurred to you before now! This was certainly my own reaction, and I now KNOW WHY we will never locate these apertures by using currently-employed bathymetric methods and instruments - and that we will certain NOT find them by any visual surface inspection - unless one happens to be located at exactly the right spot at precisely the right time!
Although I don't necessarily agree with every single word in their book, I do agree with the major bulk of their very well thought-out conclusions. In all fairness to Matt and Kev, I won't disclose the solution to the "hole" problem, here, as it would be pre-empting sales of their book. But I have found that one really has NO NEED to go to such great lengths of research into all the activities of the old Polar explorers, or read (and believe) such fairy-tales as "The Smoky God", or to search vainly for Richard E. Byrd's non-existent mythical "Secret Diaries"!
As Agent Mulder from " The X-Files" says, "The truth IS out there!" - and to find it, all we need to do is apply a smart bit of lateral-thinking - just as the Taylors have done in their rippingly-presented book "The Land of No Horizon"!
Once again, I repeat what I said before - if you're really keen to find some exciting answers to the Hollow Earth Entrances quest - get their book, and do yourself a big favour!
Best Regards ~( }:-)) )
Gerry (aka Marsflash)