Land under the ocean (1974)

Cartoon: engravings – the building of the Academy of Sciences in St.

Petersburg; a sailing ship on the Neva River; off the coast of Kamchatka.

Photo: the building of the USSR Academy of Sciences – general.

The city of Vladivostok, port – general, Wed, Poland.

The research ship leaves the port – Wed, kr.

The captain in the wheelhouse – Wed; expedition members on the deck – Wed, kr.

People seeing them off on the embankment – Wed, general.

The research vessel Akademik Kurchatov - kr; at sea – Wed, Poland.

Expedition members in the captain's wheelhouse – general.

A wave behind the stern of the ship – Wed.

The research vessel Vityaz in the ocean – Wed, general.

The navigator at the instruments – kr; in the chart room – Wed.

A crew member looking through binoculars – Wed, Poland, cr.

Storm in the ocean – Wed.

The head of one of the expeditions, Professor Lev Borisovich Udintsev of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, tells the expedition members about the upcoming research – kr, Poland.

Scientists at the map – general, cr.

Cartoon: the routes of the research ships Akademik Kurchatov and Vityaz.

The research vessel Akademik Kurchatov in the ocean – general; the vessel off the coast of Iceland – Wed; scientists on the deck – kr, cr.

The shores of Iceland – Wed.

The vessel Akademik Kurchatov among the ice – general.

The research vessel Vityaz.

Scientists from different countries and different specialties on board the Vityaz: Academician Peive, geochemist Dmitriev, geophysicist Novikov, scientists Dan Hassong from America, Fujiwara from Japan, French scientists Dubois and Pascal, Professor Kosminskaya, Professor Wright from America, expedition leader Professor L. B. Udintsev.

The research vessel Vityaz in the ocean – Wed.

Geomorphologists on duty, Japanese scientist Inoue at the echo sounder – Wed, kr; Head of the Geomorphology Detachment Galina Agapova introduces him to the research methods conducted during the voyage – gen., Wed, kr.

The echo sounder is working – kr; echo sounder recording – kr, panorama.

Seismic profiling: a scientist monitors the work of a seismic profiler – kr.

Seismic profiler in operation – kr.

A seismic streamer (an oil-filled hose containing piezoceramic sound receivers) is lowered from the deck of the vessel – gen., Wed, kr.

Electrical discharges in water – kr.

Head of seismic profiling work Alexander Beresnev at the seismic profiler – Wed.

Recordings obtained during seismic profiling – short, panoramic.

Research using the reflected wave method with the use of explosions: on deck they are preparing to lower and lowering explosives into the water – short, general, panoramic.

Work in the laboratory, automatic equipment – short, general.

Explosion in the ocean – general.

Ocean – general.

In the ocean, the Vityaz, heading south to the meeting place with the American research vessel Mahi – general.

The Vityaz’s radio room – general.

Negotiations by radio between the head of the expedition, Professor A. B. Udintsev, and the American vessel Mahi - medium, short.

The American research vessel Mahi in the ocean – general, medium.

American scientists in a boat heading towards the Soviet vessel Vityaz, climb onto the deck – medium, general.

The members of the Vityaz expedition welcome them on board the ship – cf.

The heads of the expeditions L. B. Udintsev and Malakhov hold a meeting on board the Vityaz – general, wed, cr.

On the deck of the Vityaz, Soviet and American scientists prepare a bottom seismic station for work and submersion to a depth of five kilometers – cr, wed, general.

Soviet scientist Novikov and American Odegard – cr, Poland.

The research vessels Vityaz and Makhi in the ocean, disperse and begin to carry out an experiment.

Soviet and American scientists carry out blasting operations from the Makhi, and record the results on the Vityaz – misc.,

Panorama from the instrument to the deck of the Vityaz - cf.

Blasting operations on the Vityaz - cf.

American and Soviet scientists on the Makhi are receiving seismic waves; the work is supervised by the American scientist Dan Hassong.

Scientists at the instruments - cf.

Instrument - cr; tape with recording - cr.

Ocean - misc.

Soviet and American scientists are finishing a joint experiment: a bottom station is raised to the deck of the Vityaz, instruments are taken out, recordings on magnetic tape are turned into seismograms in the laboratory.

Professor Kosminskaya examines a seismogram - cf.

Seismograms - cr.

A scientific seminar on the Vityaz, at which scientists exchange experiences and ideas - cf., general.

Professor Johnson of the University of Hawaii tells the audience about his research in seismoacoustics - cf.

Soviet and American scientists take pictures on the deck of the Vityaz before parting, say goodbye on board the Vityaz, a boat with American scientists heads to the Makhi – general, Poland, Wed.

Scientists on the decks of their ships in the last minutes before parting.

The research vessel Akademik Kurchatov in the ocean – Wed, Poland, kr.

The work of geophysicists: lowering the magnetometer gondola from the stern of the ship, which contains sensitive sensors – kr, Wed.

The magnetometer gondola astern – Wed, general.

Work in the magnetic laboratory – general, kr.

The designer of the marine magnetometer, Yevgeny Verzhbitsky, at the instruments.

The screen of the instrument – kr.

The instrument – kr.

GDR scientist Petr Kühn and head of the magnetometric team Yevgeny Mirlin conduct primary processing of data as it comes in – Wed, kr, Poland.

Kurchatov's gravimetric laboratory – scientists at work – Wed, Poland, kr.

Gravimeter – kr.

Control panel in the gravimetric laboratory – kr, Poland.

Hand on the control panel – kr.

Scientist examining gravimeter records – kr, Poland, Wed.

Work in a punch room preparing data for input into computers.

Employees working on a punch – kr, Wed; punched tape comes out – kr.

Data processing.

Scientists examining tape with graphs – Wed.

Tape with recording – kr, Poland.

Research vessel "Akademik Kurchatov" in the ocean – Wed, kr (evening).

Research work of scientists on the vessel – various.

Ocean – common.

On the deck of a ship, a scientist with a sextant – Wed, cr, Poland.

On the day of crossing the equator, there is a holiday on the deck of the ship "Vityaz": a comic baptismal ceremony in a sea font, by order of Neptune, for those who cross the equator for the first time.,

Pacific Ocean – various (evening, morning).

Research vessel Vityaz in the ocean – short, medium (evening, morning).

Professor L. B. Udintsev and Agapova.

Choosing a location for the station – medium, panorama, short.

Echo sounder in operation – short.

Preparing for operation of the deep-sea photographic installation – various.

Ship Vityaz in the ocean, station – various.

Japanese scientists lower a thermogradientometer from the deck into the ocean, observe the instrument readings, and take notes.

Cartoon: flow of thermal energy coming from the depths of the earth to the surface.

Raising the thermogradientometer and a small column of bottom soil to the deck of the Vityaz.

Lowering the deep-sea photographic installation from the deck of the Vityaz – various.

Pictures of the ocean floor – short.

The dredge is lowered from the deck of the Vityaz and the dredging is observed for many hours.

Among those observing the tension of the cable are the boatswain and the captain of the Vityaz, Anatoly Svitaylo.

Geologists watch the dredge being raised onto the deck, examining the rocks raised by the dredge – general, medium, ed.

Rock samples – ed.

Hands holding a piece of rock – ed.

Rocks raised from the ocean floor and special preparations prepared for research – thin sections – ed., panorama.

Scientists examine thin sections under a microscope – ed., ed.

The dredge is raised onto the deck of the research vessel Akademik Kurchatov; scientists examine the rocks, take notes; wash a piece of rock on the deck of the vessel in the harsh conditions of the North – ed.

Marine geologists working in the Pacific Ocean examine rocks dredged onto the decks of the Vityaz - general, cr; rock washing - cr, wed, Poland.

A sample of the earth's mantle material raised by geologists from the ocean floor near the Samoa Islands - cr.

The Vityaz ship in the ocean - cr; approaches Norfolk Island - cr, Poland; anchor is dropped - cr, Poland.

Norfolk Island - general; island vegetation - general, Poland, cr.

Phillip Island near Norfolk Island - cr, Poland.

The Vityaz ship near Phillip Island - general,

Geologists from the research vessel Vityaz on Phillip Island, studying outcrops of rocks characteristic of Norfolk Island – general, medium; geologists at a depression with water – general.

Depression with water – cr, Poland.

Vityaz approaches one of the islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean – cr, Geologists sail to the island in a boat.

They land in New Guinea, get acquainted with the island and its inhabitants.

Vegetation of the island – cr.

Geologists in New Zealand, on the rocky shores, collecting rock samples – general, medium, cr.

Lord Howe Islet, lost in the vastness of the Tasman Sea – cr, Poland.

Geologists on Lord Howe Island – general; collecting igneous rocks from the island – general, medium, cr.

North Atlantic, coast of Iceland – Wed, kr, Poland.

Geologists from the research vessel Akademik Kurchatov conduct research in the Icelandic rift zone – general.

Geologists at the Icelandic rift – a deep crack – general, Wed, kr.

Geologists land on Jan Mayen Island beyond the Arctic Circle in the Atlantic Ocean – Wed, Poland.

Jan Mayen Island – general, Poland.

Geologists on Jan Mayen Island – general; collecting rock samples – Wed, kr, Poland.

The vessel Akademik Kurchatov in the narrow straits of the Faroe Islands – Wed; Poland of the people in the captain's cabin.

Captain Eduard Revines and others in the captain's cabin – kr.

Faroe Islands – Wed, kr, Poland.

Professor L. B. Udintsev talks about research work being carried out on the problems of rift zones and the tectonics of the world ocean floor (synchronously) – cf.

Research conducted by the research vessels Vityaz in the Pacific Ocean and Akademik Kurchatov in the Atlantic Ocean – various.

Stormy ocean – kr., Poland.

The vessel Akademik Kurchatov among the ice – kr., Poland.

Iceberg – kr., (with movement).,