Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep buried in the sea, is the ideal city of Atlantis; and from it, on the quiet nights, when the winds are still, if a man's heart is right, he can hear the pealing of the bells. Such is the soul of man with sacred things deep sunken, which life's stormy noise makes us forget; and here, oftentimes on a Sunday morning, we have been quieted in worship until we heard the pealing of the bells...
...possible to salvage between $4,000,000 and $6,000,000 in gold and valuables that sank with the Lusitania. The Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915, lies in 42 fathoms of water off the southern coast of Ireland. It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures...
...another destroyer a different method is being used. Cables are attached to the sunken vessel and to floating barges. When the tide goes out, the cables are tightened; the incoming tide then lifts the barges and the vessel together. The whole group is thereupon towed into shallower water until the sunken vessel grounds-and the process is repeated. Needless to say, this is slow work...
...anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...
...Possibility of blasting any sunken ship out of the way without damaging the canal...