The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-02-20
aREAT WEALTH IN THR SEA
Vast Schemes in Preparation fo'
Salving Lost Ships.

London, Jan. 20-Now that hostlll-
Ses are ended look for the greatest
Measure hunt in history.
Companies are already being or
xanized here to recover from the BED
az the ocean a large part of the enor-
nous treaure which naval operations
SSve sent down.
wealth beyond the dreams OF av-
.rice" awaits them. One officer estl-
mates that the ocean lanes from Brl-
Sain to India alone are strewn with
host ships worth more than half a
billion dollars. Specie, gold and
,recious stones, silks, copper, lead
wool, quicksilver and oils - all the
counties commodities into whose pro-
iuction went the sweat OF men ana
into whose recovery will go the dar-
ng and even the lives of men, await
he salvage companies.
Even ships alone, without ton OF
cargo in their hulls worth saliva aging'
are bringing fabulous prices today. IL
NE Lusitania could be raised, the
.hip alone would bring five millions
at Liverpool.
Expert brains are devising methods
sf salvage which pre- war savage
companies had never dreamed.
New diving suits are among the
most startling Of the new devices. A
sew wears ago, it took more than
average physical fitness and far
more than average daring for diver
10 go down thirty fathoms, or l5o
seet Some two years ago, United
states navy divers from the Brook
I'm yard, startled the world by 60
ing down a little over fifty fathoms,
or 500 feet, to recover an American
submarine which had gone to the bot
tom off Honolulu.
New Diving Suit.
Now comes news, however, OF a
new diving suit, which will permit a
diver to go down 1000 feet without
danger. 1t is a suit Of heavy armor'
made of manganese bronze and fit
Ted with ballbearing joints. IL Is
not only strong enough to Withstand
fRne terrific water pressure or l,oOo
seet. but it carries compressed air
Sank. built on the back OF the ar
NOR. which furnishes the diver with
air sufficient for four hours. Conse'
suently it is not necessary to pump
air down to him and as he works
under ordinary atmosphere pressure
He feels no i'll effects, no matter al
what depth he works.
Other methods Of equally startling
novelty are to be used.
Already experiments have been
made with huge cylinders designed
for raising sunken ships Oft tide
bess sea. There being no natural
means Of lift, it is necessary to use
Suoyancy. Working on this principle
The cylinders are used where there Is
no tide, and no curernt.
Divers descend beforehand. as us
ual. to make careful examination
Of the hull, to find out to what e1
cent it has been damaged and tc
discover what parts Of the hull can
not stand the pressure OF applied
Buoyancy.
Then the huge iron cylinders ar;
lowered out from the nearest dock
yard, and, having been filled witt
water, are sunk close to the wrecks
enc or more on each side, and at the
vottom are lashed by divers firml!
10 the wrecks by steel cables. Ar
enormous pump then drives the wat
or from the cylinders, and allows all
% enter in its place. The result Is
mat as the air enters them, the cylin
ders become lighter and lighter, unit
finally the buoyance overcomes the
dead weight of the wreck and grad
rally the cylinders rise to the surface
bringing the wreck with them.
Success has already attended thi:
use of buoyance cylinder. not onl!