New Atlas to Size up The Earth

We have now the world’s biggest book. This giant book is an atlas with just 580 pages. But this book weighs around 30 kilos. This atlas named Earth is published by an Australian Company.

I wondered what information or how much information they could fit in just 580 pages. But the publisher assures it as the best atlas ever produced. In its 580 pages they have encrypted 154 maps and 800 photographs. This giant book measures around 6X4 feet and weighs around 30 kilos, making it hard to anyone that wants to roam around with this book.

This book is available in only 3000 copies and the publisher promises to destroy printing plates after publishing all the 3000 copies. But the cost of this book is as big as its weight. It costs you around $3500 to buy a leather back book and if you want to buy it in golden version you will have to spend, around $5500. Thus this book is more luxury than a knowledge parting book.

A Submarine of World War 2 Found

USS Grunion was a Gato-Class submarine that was sunk at Kiska, Alaska during World War-2. The specialty of Gato-Class submarines was that they were specially designed to aid US during the World war. They were very strong and have a record f sinking around 1,700,000 tons of Japanese shipping. Grunion started its services from 22 December 1941. Just in a week it helped US in rescuing 16 survivors of USAT jack, which had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. It also conducted a fruitless search for 13 other survivors presumed in the vicinity. Grunion received a battle star for WWII service. One day US Navy lost Grunion without any trace. They never had any clue on what happened to it.

Recently, US Navy was reported to have found a wreckage of a sunken vessel. When they started trying to find about the vessel, they came to it is nothing but the great Grunion. It has appeared after so many years of its mysterious vanish in a poor condition under waters of Bering Sea, about 1000 meters beneath. The reason for her sinking is still a mystery.