DIVER TO SEEK SUNKEN GOLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 16 December 1937, Page 11

DIVER TO SEEK SUNKEN GOLD

OUTRAGE OF WAR RECALLED MILWAUKEE, 2nd December. Testing equipment in which he proposes to attempt to salvage a fortune from the Lusitania, Max Nohl, aged 27 years, established a diving record today when he descended 420 ft to the bottom of Lake Michigan. A tank, which Nohl strapped to the back of his diving suit, supplied him with a mixture of oxygen and helium. This device enabled him to escape the dreaded "bends,” despite the terrific pressure of 1.041 bto the square inch.

It is estimated that the Lusitania is lying at a depth of 312 ft. [The Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsalc, Ireland, on 7th May, 1915. and

1.198 lives were lost. It was estimated that there was in her strongroom £1.000,000 in gold. I

WHEN FOOTBALL WAS BANNED In 1115, or thereabouts, the Scottish king passed Acts against football, and other “unprofitabill sporlis.” The law was, though, more honoured in the breach than in the observance; the game retained its popularity, and was played as usual. The game was so rough that the poet. Waller, wrote: “As when a soil of lusty shepherds try Their force at football; care of victory Makes them salute so rudely, breast to breast, That their encounter seems too rough for jest.”