TREASURE ON SEA BOTTOM
DARING SALVAGE OPERATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. United Service. London, June 2. One of the most daring and romantic salvage operations began to-day when Italian tugs buoyed the area whence they hope to recover £230,000 sterling silver ingots contained in the Pando Company’s Egypt, # which was sunk in the Bay of Biscay" in 1922. If successful the divers will attempt to secure £3,000,000 worth of diamonds in the wreck of the Belgian liner Elizabethville, sunk off Belle Isle by a German submarine. The salvagers of the Egypt will use six great caissons moored above the wreck, the position of which has been definitely identified. Genoese divers have been specially selected for their powers of endurance, and will use 20,000 candle-power lamps to light the sea bottom. They will place dynamite cl r .rges to shatter the hull, after which the sections will be drawn to the surface by powerful magnets.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1929, Page 2
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