Crawling along the bottom of S*® Francisco Bay, a man-made deep«<<* monster is hunting sunken treasure *» is a one-man submarine tractor, wog to prowl over the ocean floor in se»w of gold lost by shipwreck. Nearly j; years ago the steamer K. J. . ran, with " 24,000 in gold bulhOO OJ her decks and £3OOO worth of pig aboard, sank alter a collision* treasure lies about 140 feet deep where near Angel Island, Halley BjjjT lin, a young salvage expert, mined to find the hulk, and in*e®?s an eight-foot undersea tractor,, WPj* a 20-inch wide tube for the dfv* two motors to propel it over the ”• of the bay. With the aid of a ful searchlight mounted overhead, y diver sees ahead through a <aP* circular glass window.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 20
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