DIVING FOR £3,000,000.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8417, 10 December 1920, Page 1 (Supplement)

DIVING FOR £3,000,000.

ABOUT A RISKY AND UNPLEASANT JOB. One hundred and twenty feet below tile surface working among a huge mass debris that once was a ship’s hull, with pressure from the water at J - t y pounds to the square inch: such *•-0 the conditions under which the div«rs work while trying to sove .€3,000,000 15 -ipme from t*he w reck of the Laurent;('- Tho liner was sunk off the north ■fcwtof Ireland in 1917, with £9,000,0)0 to board. Two-thirds of this amount was salved *"on after the disaster, and whilst on ‘•to job a div<*r had an exciting experif D ' e - The salvage vessel was attacked }. v enemy submarines and had to run w >t. There was no time even to raise toe diver, so 'ho was towed! Luckily :a e lifeline held, and the man wa9 later tought up in safety. Sui li incidents as that are regarded by ‘k men as being part of tho day’s *ork. j' (, i.ng down after treasure is not tho % job the diver gets. For six years man toiled in the dark and water ' n< l‘ ' Winchester Cathedral. The builcl■■•2 l;ad l)*s-n erected on a bed of peat, was dov. lv subsiding. The task was out the peat and substitute ceand it was rendered more dift'iby t!;.. fact that as the peat was on the cavity filled with water. in the end the work was carried out •ttcwssliillv and tho cathedral saved. ,-u r ,ain, in collier}* districts, divers are t<,f i required to do down into mines tL 1 been flooded; at other times an- called ui>on to enter gasooietmany times they have been eni- ' Ihe ]K>lico to search river beds the like for various reasons. b w years back a diver was sent thT? * t * h ‘ l'rench police to search for *Mvof a missing man. It was rethat the man had fallen ovpr t’ho j, Ol Nhip by accident, hut the aller,on was put forward that he had r ® I,llll den d* and the body thrown I’ 1 o'ly was found with a Un< * s ,, l > °n it that fixed the crime on guilty person. »:.i 1 0 v ° r k of saving specie is often 'i ;ir, hious, hut generally the reC S <>r are good. When Lamfr, _ a . Tester brought up £90.000 >eek of the Alphonso XU., «//.^ m,,,ission amounted to £IOOO m *&*) respectively.