Blasting Reef
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, July 22. A team of New Zealand naval divers leaving for Western Samoa tonight and tomorrow morning will attempt to blast a shipping entrance in the reef surrounding the island port of Asau. If successful the team
could save the Samoan Government £250,000. The divers will use obsolete explosives—squid bombs used on Loch-class frigates—to try to widen the gap in the reef. If they are not successful a heavy dredge will have to be taken to Samoa to do the work.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 3
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88Blasting Reef Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 3
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