Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decking virgins with jade and gold and hurling them, amid clouds of incense, into great limestone sinkholes, one of which measured 168 feet across and contained 80 feet of water and mud. After digging around for years, with indifferent luck, Professor Thompson went back to Boston and acquired a diver's technique by engaging to scrape barnacles off the hulls of ships. Returning to Yucatan, he gauged the point on the sacred well's brink whence the victims were probably thrown. He hurled in logs of human weight to approximate the drowning spot. He brought in a dredge...
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...
...divers worked at the depth of 127 ft. in great difficulties. They had to be careful not to entangle their own ropes, wires, and air hose in the antennae, which would have been fatal. An hour was all they could stay down at a time. Exploring in the interior of the submarine with their bulky suits, with 24-pound weights on their feet and lead-weighted belts was difficult and dangerous. About an hour and a half was spent in raising them to the surface after each descent. They were raised 15 ft. and then allowed a rest while they...
...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...