Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early Thursday, however, Boy Scouts searching along the creek came upon the boy's bicycle and clothes on the bank. Divers at once went to work to locate the body, and after hours of effort it was found by Frank Gearing, chauffeur for Mrs. Franklin Townsend of Albany, who...
Even if the success of the present expedition has doubled the former range of practical diving from 30 to 60 fathoms, the fact remains that divers have barely scratched the epidermis on Father Neptune's back, with its average depth of 2¼ miles.
The procedure with the large battle cruisers will be somewhat different. The Hindenburg lies in 66 ft. of water, on an even keel, with its upper works projecting above water. Divers have examined it. Seaweed has completely mantled its lower surfaces. The interior is fairly well intact, even to champagne...
When the Laurentic was sunk off Lough Swilly by a German submarine during the War, a large treasure in bullion went down with it. The British marked the site and fought on. But in 1918 the attempt to salvage the undersea gold was begun, and to date about $35,000...
Not until 1920 was much accomplished owing to the greater need for apparatus and divers at Scapa Flow. By that time the Laurentic had broken up and proved a mass of tangled ironwork. During 1920 only eight bars of bullion were recovered.