National Museum of Natural History
Deep Ocean Photography
January 22, 1982 – April 13, 1982
On view are 24 black-and-white photographic murals (many are 11 by 15 feet) of a two-mile-high volcanic seamount deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Called Gilliss Seamount, it is located about 350 nautical miles from Bermuda, and rises from a base of 16,500 feet below sea level.
Photographer Walter Jahn, a U.S. Navy oceanographer, designed a special remote-controlled camera system operable at depths up to 30,000 feet below sea level. The system is on view in the exhibit. The photographs, used in Navy mapping activities, show lava and volcanic rubble as well as sediment transported and spread by ocean currents.
Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art in cooperation with the U.S. Navy.
