Divers To Hunt For Old Depth Charge
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 24. The Navy diving team will fly to Nelson tomorrow to investigate an object which could be an old depth charge.
Early this month a Nelson fisherman trawled the object up in his net, but suspecting it to be a bomb immediately returned it to the seabed. From the fiisherman’s description the object appears to be an old depth charge, possibly lost during the Second World War. Using the Marine Department launch Enterprise, the diving team, led by SubLieutenant L. A. Mangos, will first have to find the depthcharge. If it is dangerous the team will make it safe. Frigates Leave.—The United States Navy frigates Coontz and Frank Knox left Wellington early yesterday after a five-day leave break after duty tours in Vietnam. They are bound for their home port, San Diego, California, via Pago Pago and Pearl Harbour.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31586, 25 January 1968, Page 20
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