Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The problem is vast, tough, dirty, dangerous and infinitely complicated. Diving work of a magnitude never before undertaken will be required. A school must be set up on Pier 88 to train scores of divers and hundreds of other salvage workers before the job can even be started. When salvage...
2. Exhibition of 30 minutes by qualifying divers, one meter (low board)
At tiny Broome (pop. 750) in western Australia, there is a Japanese cemetery. In it rest Japanese divers who went to Australia's pearling grounds, dove to depths no white man would attempt, and died at their labors. Australians knew that Japanese divers, shore laborers and fishermen for years...
The 13,415-ton Niagara was sunk by a German mine 28 miles off eastern New Zealand in June 1940. All hands were saved. An Australian salvager, Captain J. P. Williams, found the Niagara in February 1941. From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to...
Engineers studied salvage plans. Designer Yourkevitch had one. After divers had sealed all openings, one after another of her compartments could be sealed and pumped out until she was buoyant. If water was then pumped into her double bottoms and deep tanks, Yourkevitch believes, the ship would finally right herself...