SIX WEEKS AT SEA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1937, Page 2

SIX WEEKS AT SEA

CABLE SHIP RECORDER BUFFETED THREE CYCLONES ENCOUNTERED TASMAN IN STORMY MOOD | United Press Association— By Elect. 1c Telegraph-- Copyright] (Received 3rd Mar. 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. When the cable ship Recorder reached port, her officers told of six stormy weeks spent in tlie Tasman, which for the past month has been in one of its worst and most variable moods. In addition to a number of heavy "blows,” the Recorder encountered three separate cyclones, all of great severity, and on each occasion site hove to for a number of days, while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge. On occasions the crew would be engaged in lifting cables from the ocean bed when a storm would work up in less than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast off. Very little of the work, which the crew set out to do—(her claying of oprtions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland—has been accomplished in the six weeks since the vessel left Auckland, as it. has been impossible to work in the extreme weather conditions. Another attempt will be made after a short stay at Sydney.