Walter H. Munk dives with shark, Bikini Atoll lagoon

Note from inscribed title: Walter Munk said: "Willard N. Bascom took this picture in Bikini Lagoon when I was about to be devoured by a shark! I was standing on the bottom with a tsunami pressure gauge which I had raised above my head and was holding there to obtain a Laplace transform of instrument response, when I noticed Bascom taking a most unusual photographic interest in this operation. I puzzled about this for some minutes, and then had a sudden revelation that made me turn around. The calibration was an incomplete function."

• 1952

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Spencer F. Baird (Ship)

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Capricorn Expedition Photograph Collection.

Library Services and Technology Act - California Explores the Ocean

• Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)

• Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands

• Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-2019

• Scuba divers
• Shark attacks
• Sharks
• Wit and humor--Pictorial

• image

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• Capricorn Expedition Photographs

• UC Regents

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2022-02-18