A Novel Swimming Dress.
A swimming dress, resembling a diver’s dress, and made of double India rubber, has, according to a foreign contemporary, been adopted in the German navy. On the cheat is a valve through which the air is blown into the interior of the dress, which covers the whole body and leaves only the face free. To prevent the swimmer from being too much tossed about by the sea, the space round the chest is especially large. The swimmer wears a belt which divides the dross into two parts, to prevent a too great loss of air if the dress were torn about the legs, and eonsequent difficulty in swimming. The swimmer wears shoes with leaden soles to secure Lis equilibrium, and for his defence a dagger, which is fastened to the girdle. The swimmers are to be employed for the blowing up of mines and hostile oratt, and are provided with a box containing an explosive charge, which they have to fasten to the mine or craft, and ignite. Before the explosion occurs they are out of the reach of danger.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 5
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184A Novel Swimming Dress. New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 5
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