Word: subsea
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...pipe sink to the bottom of the bay. When all was ready a whistle blast was sounded and the offshore end started to submerge. Watchers saw the long serpent slowly disappearing, when suddenly something went wrong. The great pipe started slipping sidewise, gathering speed. Tremendous pressure of strong subsea currents had snapped one of the shore cables like cotton thread. Soon the other cable parted and the whole long pipe plunged downward out of sight, a total loss in 2,300 ft. of water...
...boomed Herr Professor Oswald Flamm in Berlin last week, and the admiralties of the World listened for he ranks among the three greatest experts on subsea warfare. "There is nothing contrary to the Treaty of Versailles in what I am doing, because my experiments are being made purely as a private citizen...
...Still more daring was a subsea voyage performed by Amir Amanullah in the British submarine L-22, off Southampton. When invited to fire a dummy torpedo, His Majesty pulled the trigger with apparent trepidation, but soon rallied and fired a second torpedo...