LUSITANIA SALVAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23048, 27 May 1938, Page 5

LUSITANIA SALVAGE

BROADCAST ARRANGED FILM OF OPERATIONS [from a special correspondent] LONDON, May 7 A broadcast is to be arranged this summer from the deck of the Lusitania, sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. The ill-fated liner now lies 300 feet below the surface of the sea with £1,000,000 of bullion in her holds. The broadcaster will be Captain John D. Craig, deep-sea photographer, who is to make a film of the Lusitania salvage operations. He will be lowered from the salvage ship Orphir, 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, where the Lusitania was sunk. Captain Craig will go down with the salvage divers and film them as they cut their way with undersea oxygen acetylene torches through the battered plates of the wreck. He will broadcast descriptions of the divers at work. Then, after the long, dangerous task of slashing a way through the ship, there will come the most dramatic moment of the search. In Captain Craig's own words: "The divers move the flame downwards, slicing the steel, and at last they push in the plate they have cut out, and we walk in. But no, we do not walk right in . . . when at last Ave stand at the threshold of the strong-room we must report to London by radio. I do not know why."