Dates
- Cover date
- February 1961
- On sale
- January 3, 1961
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Frogmen · 4 pages
Riding undersea "pig" piloted torpedoes, Italian frogmen attack British warships in Alexandria and Gibraltar.
- Mines Below · 8 pages
Lionel Crabb joins British scuba divers protecting shipping and fighting Italian frogmen in Gibraltar.
- Underwater Conquest · 5 pages
History of underwater exploration, from ancient Greek sponge divers through early underwater devices, experiments by Bushnell and Fulton, and the first bathysphere.
- Sea Monsters -- False and True · 4 pages
Five mythical sea creature as imagined in the sixteenth century, and five unusual real sea creatures.
- Sunken Treasure · 7 pages
Captain Dickinson uses a diving bell to salvage treasure lost in a shipwreck; modern divers use scuba gear; divers investigate Mayan wells, and a Kefti shipwreck in the Mediterranean
- Skin Diving · 6 pages
Explanations of skin diving, practical applications in wildlife management, oil prospecting, police work, and scientific studies are given.
- In Magellan's Wake · 6 pages
Beach and his crew conduct the Triton on the world's first underwater circumnavigation of the globe.
- Seven Miles Down · 7 pages
Piccard and Walsh take the first bathyscaph (Trieste) to a record depth -- 35,800 feet in the Marianas Trench.
- The Duel · 5 pages
After provoking a duel, the Viscount kills himself rather than actually face it.
- D-Day Part 4: Night Drop · 6 pages
U.S. and U.K. paratroopers and glider troopers descend on Normandy and attack the Germans, hours before the D-Day seaborne assault.
- The Red Planet Part 4: A Trip to Mars · 4 pages
Speculation in the means of the first flight to Mars, and what astronauts might find there.
Reprinted in
World Illustrated (1960)