FROGMAN IN PIPE
Lowered By Crane (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Dec. 29. A frogman was hoisted 20 feet into the air by a crane and lowered into a waterfilled 22-inch wide, 76-foot deep foundation pipe on a wharf construction site in Mechanics Bay, Auckland, today. The diver, Mr H. Nathan, the principal of the firm of New Zealand Divers, said he had been asked by the company building the Tasman Wharf to try to locate a leak which had flooded the pipe. Mr Nathan said that with a •' pound aqualung strapped i > his back he had only three inches in which to manoeuvre down the pipe. In a dive lasting three-quarters of an hour he found the leak about 60 feet down.
The pipe had been gashed by a pile driver which had torn a seven-inch hole along a joint.
The construction company has decided to fill the pipe with concrete until the leak is covered.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 16
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