DEFECTIVE CABLE
GRAPNEL SEARCH FAILS
MAY HAVE BEEN-BURIED IN
EARTHQUAKE
SYDNEY, March 10,
According to officers of the cable ship Recorder, difficulty is being experienced in locating a faulty cable between Sydney and Auckland. A month ago a huge grapnel was dropped four, miles into the Tasman at the precise spot where the fault .was known to exist, but the cable could hot be found, and a search of an area over 40 miles square met with no success. Officers think that the cable must have been buried by a submarine earthquake within the past five years. '
The Recorder is putting to sea again with a type of grapnel that digs into the seabed. '
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Evening Post, Issue 60, 11 March 1936, Page 11
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114DEFECTIVE CABLE Evening Post, Issue 60, 11 March 1936, Page 11
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