DIVER BENEATH MUD
A SUCCESSFUL RESCUE. TRAPPED FOR SEVEN HOURS. LONDON, June 19. An unusual drama was enacted in the bed of the Thames at Dagenham, where a jetty was being constructed, for seven hours divers were imprisoned beneath fifteen feet of mud; the lifelines passing jagged edges of a steel cylinder weighing 100 tons, which was being sunk in the mud to provide foun dations. A. diver descended to ascertain what was preventing the cylinder sinking. Shortly afterwards the cylinder sank abruptly, and simultaneously there w-as a sharp tug of the diver’s safety rope. Those above realised that the diver had been sucked down and buried in the mud. Other divers descended and worked continuously to locate their comrade. After seven hours he was released ami brought to the surface, still conscious. His face was swollen and red. He complained that his greatest trouble was the pressure of mud on his body.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 145, 22 June 1931, Page 7
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