Latitude Zero (1969)

Joseph Cotten: Capt. Craig McKenzie, Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie

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• Capt. Craig McKenzie : [opening narration]  Longitude 180 degrees, latitude zero. The Spring of 1969, the largest oceanographic ship in the world, the Japanese research vessel, "Fuji", has sailed eastwards from the Gilbert Islands to an area in the equatorial South Pacific to investigate and analyse what is known as the Cromwell Current, a sub-surface stream flowing eastwards from New Guinea to the coast of Ecuador. Why study it? Because, possibly, it can be used by submarines to increase speed, just as a jet stream is used by high-flying aircraft.