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...suit in which Max Nohl made last week's record dive was designed by himself, with the aid of Captain John Craig, a writer, lecturer and explorer who had invented a successful undersea camera. The suit is of rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib. An underdress of heavy fleece wool and waterproof canvas is worn inside, the rubber canvas trousers, with pockets, outside. The helmet is cylindrical, has a glass window ⅜ in. thick all the way around, so that the diver has as wide an angle of vision as he can turn his head...
...chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Frank Mc-Hugh), Warner Brothers demonstrate the advances that have been made in undersea safety since the disasters that befell the S-4 and S-51* in the last decade...
Heretofore when the cinema has chosen subsea subjects, it has usually focused on a stricken boat on the seafloor, has peered in at anguished men gasping for air, sweating great globules of mineral oil (which looks more sweaty than sweat). The undersea mishap that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently...
...crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with the wreck and the rescue are so interesting technically that they compensate to a large extent for the bromidic situations and embarrassingly obvious dialog which lay the ground for them. Noteworthy is the photographic exposition of the inventions for the safety of undersea craft-the operation of a specially marked buoy which, released from the deck and carrying a line, enables a wrecked submarine to denote to rescue craft her position on the sea floor; the Momsen artificial lungs (TIME, Aug. n, 1930) with which some of the Nautilus' crew pass...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey is getting started this year on an undersea mapping project which will require three to six years, from the Delaware Capes to Nantucket. Assisting the Oceanographer are three small vessels: the Lydonia, which is doing inshore work in water as shallow as five fathoms; and the Gilbert and Welker, which serve as station ships to keep the Oceanographer constantly able to find its position within a quarter-mile. This is done by discharging TNT bombs from the mapping ship; the sound is picked up by hydrophones on the two station ships and automatically sent back by radio...