SHOCK FROM EARPHONES
SHIP RADIS MAN STUNNED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 25. Momentarily stunned by an electrical discharge from his earphones when on duty during the height of the storm on Friday night, Mr A. E. Goodman, second radio operator on the liner Akaroa, was flung backward in his seat while the vessel was a, short distance from the New Zealand coast on its way to Auckland from Southampton. Mr Goodman recovered shortly afterwards, being little the worse for his experience when the Akaroa berthed on Saturday afternoon. The Akaroa was one of several vessels off the New Zealand coast which ran into a storm at the end of last week. Between midnight and 2 o’clock that part of the storm through which the Akaroa was steaming became very severe, and high seas and strong winds were accompanied by thunder and lightning. An extremely vivid flash of lightning ran down the lead-in wire from the aerial and discharged through the earphones being used by Mr Goodman in the radio operator’s room on the boat deck. Mr Goodman was struck unconscious for a short time, and assistance had to be summoned.
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Evening Star, Issue 22632, 26 April 1937, Page 2
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192SHOCK FROM EARPHONES Evening Star, Issue 22632, 26 April 1937, Page 2
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