The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-03
Simon Lakes Salvage Schemes To Be Used By
 Rich New Corporation
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erty which lies at the bottom. Among these commercial vessels the Lusi- tania is the most prominent, her value alone being considered at approxi- mately $3,000,OO0.
 It is pointed out that she lies at a depth between 200 and 300 feet. Two factors alone prevent her re- covery. One of the depths at which a. diver is able to work with freedom of muscular strength, and the other is the regulation devices which, if at tached, could be operated to give vary ing buoyancy at different depths
 It is known to submarine engineers that the submarine alone can pene- trate to a depth of 300 feet below the surface. It is further known as dem onstrated in the raising of the Empress of Ireland from the, mouth of the St. Lawrence river two years ago that but one system of compress sion has been devised capable of uni- forn1y sustaining a rising weight from the depths. This principle, put in operation at that time, is the patent of Commander R. H. M. Robinson, of this city, managing director of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co.,, in which Simon Lake is identified
 The theory upon which well in formed persons here predict the suc- cess of the new venture in building devices for submarine salvage is the 
 descend to a depth at which they could place pontoons about a, vessel such as the LuSitania, the devices covered by Lake patents are the only ones practical for such enterprises!
 Lake in the earliest stages of his work saw only the commercial side of the submarine. His prime motive was the recovery of sunken treasure in order to gain which, in his first boats, he constructed a diving-cham- Der actuated on the principal of com pressed air at an equal pressure to the water outside the hull of the ves- sell Later he carried this principal even further by adopting an inner pressure-resisting hull and an outer non-pressure resisting hall which gave him freeboard when sailing on the surface and stability when submerg- ed Lake is the only person to build a submarine diving compartment in an offensive government subTn arine, (The G-D. The Germans, however, are said to have utilized the idea, in the UJboats.
 Local submarine authorities assert that while the present type of bottom openings for the emergence of a diver would be impracticable 4D the raising of the Lusitania at depth of 200 to 300 feet, side opening compartments with sufficient internal air pressure would permit of the locating of sunken vessel, as we'll as the arrange ment of pontoons alongside, by me- chanica1 apparatus.
 While it is a far-reaching step in the progress of undersea salvage, the plan is considered by those locally in terested in submarine affairs to be most practical and a prime necessity when thousands of millions of dollars are lying at the bottom of the seas within striking distances of present underwater craft
 Commander Robinson, when asked to discuss the incorporation today, ad- mitted his previous knowledge of the venture but refused in any way to comment upon it. Robinson is known to have been interested in the Yankee Salvage company of New York until recently at least
 It will be recalled in Bridgeport that the original Argonaut, devised and put into operation by Simon Lake with special wreck finding and recovery apparatus, was successful in sa1vag- ing much coal and copper from deep waters before she was disa bled in a wreck off the Jersey coast.