TO EXPLORE THE SEA-BOTTOM.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

TO EXPLORE THE SEA-BOTTOM.

A new diving suit, wliich, it is flnimml, w ill permit of a diver descending on • thousand feet without inconwm. m- ... has been perfected by an American! inventor, who has himstclf down in it to a depth of 361 feet. Pflwioudv the world’s rodbwl I/or d* p-M i diving was 236 feet, ntnd in thieving this one man lost his life. *ihJ two others made physical wrecks Ives. The inventor of the E "' r dress came up feeling aj well as *li.n In- went down, after remaining the bottom for forty-five minutes. f ho -'*(•.> i; really a suit of heavy •nnour, made of manganese bronze, *nd lit) d with ball-bearing joints So i, it that it will withstand the |r< mo < f the water at an f *tr,nie depth of one thousand feet; . r ' ! air tank, built <>»» th “ kick of the armour, furnishes the with air for four hours. Conseuiieutlv it is not necessary to P"n-p air down to him, and a.s .ho ,n fk all the time under the ordinary pressure he feels no ill- "° matter at what depth ho may be.