20,000 THRILLS UNDER SEA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 56, 8 March 1939, Page 10

20,000 THRILLS UNDER SEA

Neptune’s Realm Invaded

Modern invention is fast invading the privacy of Neptune’s eerie realm. The technological genius of sub-sea treasure seekers has just produced a device which now promises to give the public a shark’s-eye view of men’s efforts to wrest the fabulous riches stowed within the hulks of sunken ships. This weird contraption projects, through the nether caverns of the sea, a flood of light sufficient to photograph scenes on motion picture films. Word that the gadget will be used during attempts to retrieve the gold and jewels in the wreck of the British line: Lusitania conjures up a p'-cture oi fantastic adventure.

Movie-goers will have the thrill oi dropping over the side of the salvage ship anchored over the wreck of the Lusitania off the emerald slopes of Old Head of Kinsale. Grinding film will unwind their slow descent down creepy corridors of bubbling brine. They will follow the slow-motion movements ol leaden-shod monsters half-reeling, halffloating through dank dungeons in

phantom castles of twisted steel. And as though that of itself were noi enough to tax the credulity of the most speculative imagination, there ct ;be magnetic appeal of all the wealth :h« mythical monarch of the raging ;«jn has hoarded up within the barn:, cd bulkheads of what was unce thepursti s quarters these two and twenty years. Nobody knows how many million.'- in specie and precious stones went down to Davy Jones’s the day the giant four-stacker steamed with fata, precision across the intersecting lines on die lens of that lurking periscope, conservative estimates stop at £bb<Joo< Enthusiastic guesses range up to £3,000,000. Romantic conjecture pay? a fancy rate of interest on the stuff. Salvagers say the Lusitania is the toughest job they’ve ever tackled. The wrecked Cunarder may never yield up her reputed riches. But if Capt. John D. Craig’s deep-sea camera serves his purpose, the salvagers may bring back the makings of an even greater fortune in thrilhng filmt