DRAMA UNDER THE SEA.
THREE MEN'S NARROW ESCAPE. TRAPPED IN SUNKEN WARSHIP. While working in a sealed section of the submerged ex-German battleship Von Der Tann, at Scapa Flow, a few weeks ago, • four salvage workers were injured by an explosion, arid three of them were trapped in tho vessel for three hours. An oxy-acetylene blowpipe was being used to cut through a pipe when the explosion occurre i. One of the men, Mr. George McKenzie, the chief salvage officer, was able to get out of the section into another which had also been fitted as an " air-lock," but it was found impossible to reopen the bulkhead door of the first section.
A diver, who was working 011 the outside f>l Ihe vessel, had to be fetched to enter the hull, from which the air was escaping, and oxy-acetylene equipment had to be used to cut a way through tile two inches of steel of the bulkhead to the air-lock " where the three men lay badly injured. They were brought tip to the surface safely and taken to a hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20768, 10 January 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)
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