TENTH DIVER DIES IN DEPTHS
DARWIN, May 22. Kenicho Sakamato, 25-year-old Japanese diver, came home to Darwin today on a lugger that flew Jiis country’s flag at half-mast. Kenicho was dead. He died alone in the dark, 20 fathoms below the surface of the water on a pearling bed 18 miles north-west of the Liverpool River. He is the tenth of his race to die in the same way this season. The air-pipe attached to his diving helmet burst, or was snapped by a shark or one of the giant cod which haunt the pearling beds. Kenicho had worked for the Bowden Pearling Co., of Thursday Island for three years and he came back from his work for the last time on one of the company’s luggers. The beds where he lost his life are being worked by a large number of Japanese, Thursday Island and Darwin luggers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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