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Last week the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, fitted with all the latest scientific inventions for deep-sea diving, began cruising about the spot fixed by Captain Hedbach, sounding the bottom methodically, inch by inch. They struck a ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then...
Pandemonium on the Artiglio. The gold-bearing Egypt carried easily distinguishable hydraulic cranes of a type no longer used. Diver Alberto came up, Director Alberto went down. So did several other divers. In short order the wreck was identified as the Egypt. Deep in a jungle of seaweed, blurred with...
As it was for Richard the Lion-Hearted, life seems always to have become most trying for Sister Aimee after a visit to the Holy Land. Having just returned from Palestine, she took a dip in the Pacific at Ocean Park, Calif, on May 18, 1926, after which she was...
Seated in a steel sphere Explorer Beebe and Otis Barton, inventor, dropped 1,426 ft. into the sea, 1,076 ft. deeper than the record. On the sphere's outer surface was fastened a dead fish. Through thick windows of fused quartz the divers could peer out at deep...
The withdrawal of Desjardines leaves as prominent competitors in the diving event, Walter Nappa of the University of Minnesota, Sherwin Combs of Syracuse, Tyson Lykes of M. I. T., Throndson of Stanford, Grandy of Pennsylvania, and Brooks of Princeton. At the twenty-fourth annual meet of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association...