Word: suction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clinkers & Scallops. Meanwhile, 65 feet down, his divers probed the bay floor with powerful hydraulic jet drills and huge vacuum-cleanerlike suction pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker dumped off a World War II coal ship. A piece of ancient planking turned out to be part of the town pier. Some mysterious round objects turned out to be weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings...
...last time "Sam" was heard from was two years ago when he threatened to flood the foundations of Lamont Library while they were being laid. He was stayed off by suction pumps that ran 24 hours...