Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 493, 10 January 1902 — NEW DIVING VESSEL TO RAISE ISLANDER [ARTICLE]

NEW DIVING VESSEL TO RAISE ISLANDER

IS ANOTHER GREAT INVENTION ■ Will Sink to Any Depth—An EggShaped Glass Vessel. She Will Stand Much Pressure—Prospects for Deep Sea Photography Good. i Hu- Hazard •& Stearns diving vessel i is the latest thing out to raise the Islander. says the Province. The Van- 1 (.•■over paper describes this Invention j j as "an egg-shaped glass vessel some j | f-' nr or five feet in diameter, made of t 3-inch moulded glass. Inside this there I j. ; ’l be room for men to sit or move I about. The vessel is attached to a r cable, and properly weighted, sank - to any depth. Air Is supplied t * by lubes connected with pumps on the anxuliarr steamer on the sur- a : facg. and connection kept up by tele- ” | phone." A screw propeller and’rudder-v ■ allow the vessel to be moved in any j diT-ectJtvn beneath the surface, the vessd above changing its position accord- 1 ingly as word is sent by the telephone, f, -A powerful searchlight will play up- *> on the water, and when the submerged b wreck is reached an ingenious scheme of detachable grappling irons allows r

s the ktll fc be taken loJd cf and lifted j 3 \ i by the wrecking scows on tne surface-} The egg-shaped cas s vessel will stand} ar.y po«Bt;Je pressure. tmfng tn arh J r storuser than steel and if all that tfcej ■ iever'er aa-lcfpjrte# eerne* true the| 7 probabilities of tbe invention Itt de*p ’ .‘e* ptKAoirraphr and wrecking oo»m--tfoss art <yorao«