WEIGHTED MAN WALKS 14 MILES UNDER SEA; SUBMERGED 9½ HOURS
NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (Recd. 6 p.m.)—Roy Butler, aged 38, a diver, weighted with 4251 b. of lead, walked across Hampton Roads today.
He has claimed an unofficial world’s record for the distance travelled and the time submerged. The airline distance is about five miles. Butler said he walked about 14 miles, skirting deep passages and avoiding derelicts. He was submerged nine and ir-half hours. Butler negotiated the mud which held the battleship Missouri in its grip for days last winter. Butler had estimated the trip would - take him 20 hours, but said a fast-running tide buffeted him along ahead of schedule, although it almost beat him to death in the process. He said he blacked out for at least 90 seconds when he stepped into a 90ft. deep ship channel.
An accompanying boat pulled him up partly and he recovered. “Never again,” said Butler when he finished.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 August 1950, Page 5
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