UNDERSEA WORKSHOP
Experiments By
British (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, June 20. Divers are carrying out experiments to set up a seabed “workshop” 600 ft beneath the surface of the Mediterranean. An eight-man team has spent up to an hour working normally at this depth, Where the pressure is 17 times greater than on the surface Reports say British nava’ scientists are well ahead of anyone else in opening up these underseas frontiers. In the last series of experiments the divers'sawed metal, took cine films and recorded waler temperatures off the French port of Toulon. Wearing only frogmen’s suits and light breathing apparatus, the men went down in a compression chamber and stepped eo to the sea floor. An oxphefaum mixture they were breathing prevented their being crashed. The experiments rival the
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30782, 21 June 1965, Page 8
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