Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-06-27
YOUNG REALIZES THAT HE Is AFoUL.

YOUNG REALIZES THAT HE is AFoUL.
side Of the small boat, his weights were
put on over his shoulders, the cranky Of
the air pumps began to revolve and with
the signal, "All right" given by two
pats on the top Of his helmet, John
Young gently sank beneath the waves,
easing himself down his shot rope as he
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Enquirer, that in Suda bay there must
have been a submarine current, probably
only very slight, but nevertheless suffi-
GENTLY strong when Young descended to
turn him gradually, but completely,
around, so that ere he touched the bot
tom he had unknowingly already got his
life line and air pipe foul.
Utterly unaware Of this and finding the
torpedo Immediately, Young gave the
!signal-a pull on his life line-which had
already been agreed upon, and which
meant that he was ready for the five inch
'hawser to be lowered to him.
This was done, and, catching hold Of
the end Of the hawser, he CROPPED his way
Ito the torpedo, wading through the heavy
bottom mud, which was nearly up to his
knees. Making the hawser fast to the
tail of the torpedo he must have moved
completely around the submerged weapon
from left to right, thus making another
foul.
The hawser being made fast, Young
now started to ascend up the shot rope,
quite unaware that he had made hitch
around both it and the torpedo with both
his air pipe and breast line.
By this time Young must have come to
the conclusion that he was fouled for he
had assembled short distance and then
found he could not move. Therefore, like
a wise man, he went down again and
tried to find out where the trouble was,
but owing to it's being pitch dark where
he was it is not to be wondered at that
he failed to do so.
Almost despairing Of being able to free
himself and dreading to resort to the last
resource THAT of cutting himself clear
with his knife), lest he should get foul
again while going up, the unfortunate
man gave four pulls on his air pipe. This
is the most urgent signal that diver can
send to his friends above. 1t means "Pull
me up at once by my life line"
At first the operators hesitated to act
on this, but on the urgent repetition of
the signal the order was given on the
launch to haul in the life line. But OH
commencing to do this the operators
found it was impossible to bring up more
than a fath0m of the line. Worse still,
the only result of this operation was to
turn fouc,, completely upside tow.l. The
very first pull on the line, entanglcd as
it was around the torpedo, must have
done this.
Now, once a diver loses his perpendic-
Iular and gets horizontal the air gets into
The legs of his dress, up they go, and
then nothing that he can do will ever
bring them down again. He is mere
helpless wind bag, quite incapable of re-
versing himself This is precisely what
must have happened to Young. The loop
of his life line round the torpedo pulled
him on to his chest, the hapless mans
legs Immediately went up, buoyed with
air, and SO he remained, humping about
on his head in total darkness, 70 feet at
the bottom If the sea. Or course those
above could aot tell what had happened.
Unable to bring the diver up and getting
no more signals from him. so candle
power electric submarine lamp was low
cred down to him ut 80 p. m. To this
was attached a slate and pencil, so that
the helpless man could write on the slate
ind inform those above precisely what
his dilemma was.
After his rescue Young said he remem-
bered seeing the light, but he never had
Amy recollection Of the slate. All this
time he was floating at the bottom Of the
sea, heels upp,rmost, the monotony be-
ing vuricd by his occasional humping his