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Finally, although the seas were still troublesome, the two giant cranes Monarch and Century were brought to the spot and succeeded in catching the ends of the slings which the divers had adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they failed to budge the sunken craft. They tried a second time and failed. It was concluded that the submarine had entirely filled with water. A diver with an oxy-acetaline torch cut a tiny hole in the engine room hatch. A few air bubbles escaped. Then nothing more. The compartment...
...said: "I am proud that my sons were serving their country when they died. I think the Navy is the finest possible life for travel." any young man who wishes to Later the engine room hatch was cut open and three bodies were taken out by divers. Another diver with an electrical device burned a hole in the forward torpedo room.*That also was flooded. All hope was gone...
...Foam, groping the Atlantic for 750 miles off the Virginia Capes with a mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision...
...suit has arrangements so that the diver can cast off his ropes and telephone cable and work freely, with ballast tanks which may be emptied by compressed air so as to enable him to rise to the surface and maneuver. Because the diver, thus converted into a sort of one-man submarine, is not subjected to high air pressure, he can rise to the surface rapidly without ill effects...
...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...