"MIGHTY DANGEROUS"
«T!<;FAI2vSSON"Si OPINION
Australian Tress Association.
(.Received Ist April, S a.m.)
NJ3W YORK, 30th March
Sir George AVjlkins announced that lie was consulting' the Lake Torpedo Company for procuring a submarine. He estimated fcho distance in the Arctic lo be traversed by (lie vessel, one type of which was already available, with an ' "airlock " which would enable (•gross, while submerged, would bo approximately 20Q0 miles. The cost of the expedition '-would be 150,000 dollars.
Dr. Stefaiissoiij, commenting on the venture, said: '''Of course, it pleases me very much that Sir George Wilkins is adopting my plan, but I am also worried, because it is a very dangerous enterprise. Ten or twenty years from now a submarine- voyage of this nature will bo a coimnoitpDucc thing without danger, but at present it is a mighty dangerous thing." He added that it was feasible- to blapt ice upwards from a submarine'and rise.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 9
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