LOST TREASURE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 28 April 1926, Page 9

LOST TREASURE.

EXPLORING SUNKEN LINER. The I’. and O. Liner Egypt came into collision with a Ereneh vessel off I'shant and w('Mt>lowii, fifteen of the passengers and eighty of the crew losing their lives. No doubt the Genual! diving apparatus, which allows of periods up to Iwo hours being .spent at groat depths without physical harm !o the diver, will in- iiso,| in | lie salvaging operations. The principle the apparatus i« that the pressure of the water which was formerly cscieised upon the body of the diver is held from him liv the apparatus ilself. '['lie upper part of the diving dress, if it can he so called, lias the appearance of a small tower like the eonning-lower of a submarine. It is made of Siemens steel ami is in two halves, which can lie screwed togel her. In front and at the sides (here are windows, and through them are attached the signal apparatus, valves, electric light apparatus and gauges. The lower part is titled with compensating Heights. The movable arm and leg parts, llio joints of which are at Inched to the upper part, upon ball-bearings, are made of aluminium plating. The eppara Ins is fitted with tanks, which can be filled and emptied at leisure. f_f the diver wishes to sink he (ii'i; a tank; if he wishes to rise he can blow it: out by means of compressed air earned on the hark of the tower. An oxygen apparatus is also carried. Onmmiinical ion is maintained by signal line.-, a hmw.or and a telephone. Depths of oOOft have boon attained.