The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-27
Nv Alvin McCaslin, in New Yorl
Evoninp POST


are risking their lives 800 feet under |
tne waters of the Pacific Oceon, to
1ring the United States submarine F-4
@ the surface, have made records
a.s winter that challenge the world.
80 navy on the globe has sent it's
divers down so deep into sea water
a, has the American navy. No liv-
inc man ever sank into water as far
AS the Brooklyn navy-yard divers
have gone.
II is not dare-deviltry that has made
them expert. These cool-bralned
divers have trained for deep-sea work
AS skifully as a Herreshoff builds
YACHT. Locked up daily in steel tanks
under powerful air compression, prov
ing their tests by going down to deep
ocean bottom, trying out every known
appliance, they have made a science
out Of their task.
one of the reasons why the blue
7ackets of the American navy hold the
worlds record for deep underwater
diving is because they have turned the
4ir-haSk of the torpedo into life-Dre-
server. A big. cigar-shaped torpedo,
sixteen feet long and eighteen inches
thick tjust the kind you read about.
when some submarine takes shot at
another vesseD has three compart-
ment Its forward end is filled with
Wet gun-cotton up against a dry
primer. 1t is only the forepart of the
torpedo that is deadly. The middle
chamber is filled with compressed air
To run the engine: guncotton ahead;
compressed air in the centre: engine
and propeller aft. The alr-f1ask
which in business times drives the
weapon at thirty knots an hour, has
been coaxed by the American navy
10 feed fresh air to the naval diver
away down under the sea
The Record From The Log.
These gunners of the United States
navy have set mark at which othe
uavies can shoot. or, rather, five. The.
now hold the worlds record, in peac
or war. for going to the bottom AM
coming back alive. Here is a lea
from the log Of the U. s. S. Wake, on
of The fast destroyers of the America
navy:
"Drellishak. chief gunner's mate
descended As 2-3rds fathoms, in tn
Race"
The Race is the deepest hole 1
Long Island Sound, and gets its nam
because the tide waters rush throug
il as they do through He'll Gate at tn
other end of the sound. S. j. Drell
shak went down 274 feet to the be
Of The Race, and stayed on the bo
tom five minutes, talking to gunne
George y. Stillson. u. S. NJ, superb
tending the divers work from the dec
by telephone. Drellishak took an no,
and twenty minutes to come up.
he hadn't he probably wouldn't be
Honolulu today.
His mates, Crilley, Nelson, an
Anderson, begged to compete with tt
lucky diver. They had often gol
down 100 to 200 feet There were
lives nor property at stake. howeve
and the tide was running like a mil
race, 46 fathoms below. Gum
Stllson was not like the Chinams
who bid against himself at the au
ton. He called the worlds dlvll
contest closed-Uncle Sam first, t
rest nowhere.
The British navy made the best pr
Vious official record, in Loeb Strive
Argylishire, where Lieut.. Damant a
Gunner A. V. Cato, both of the Roy
Navy, descended to a depth Of
fathoms (21O feet) That was t
worlds record in 1906. and remain
So until the L. S. navy took it Il
winter. You may look for deer
mark this month from Honolulu.
They say that diver named Ore
went to the bottom in As fathoms 4
feet in Australian waters, diving
pearls off the lugger Tern. The o.
record for that is they say, Wh'
doesn't do, officially
Before the British naval DIV
made the 210-foot record the non
lay with Angel Erostarbe, the span
diver, who recovered $50,O0o In Sll
bars. 1872 feet down, from the WIRE
of the Skyro off Cape Finisterre SO
Greek and Swedish divers. 1T is Sc
have gone down 10 feet deeper TO
anime the hull of the Chamols,
Iatras, in 1904. But they went
came SO rapidly they never couid
what happened to the Chamols
The Navy on The Job.
The United States navy tackled
deep-sea diving problem thorougl
When the torpedo boat destro
Wake steamed into Long ISL
Sound to make the worlds RECORD
deep diving. under orders from