LOST TASMAN CABLE
SEARCH BY REPAIR SHIP
FORTY SQUARE MILES
SYDNEY, March 10. According to officers of the cable ship Recorder, dsf*P~ , *~ is Ming experienced in locating a -.-alt in the cable between Sydney and Auckland. A month ago a huge .grapnel was dropped four miles into the Tasman Sea at the precise spot .where the fault was known to exist,-'but-.the., cable could not be found, and a search of v over 40 square miles met with" no success.
Officers think that the cable must have been buried by a. submarine earthquake within the past five years.
The Recorder is putting to sea again with a type of grapnel that digs in the seabed. , . ;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 5
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114LOST TASMAN CABLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 5
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