Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit and helmet. Diver Jack Coghlan, 25, slipped through a hole in the 14-in ice and out of sight in Port Arthur harbor last week. On bottom at 25 ft., he pushed through waist-deep silt to a wall of sheet-metal piling. In 39° water he carefully passed his rubber-gloved hands over the foundation, reporting what he felt and what little he could see into a telephone linked with the surface, and thought to himself, "Life could hardly be rosier these days...
...Line's Kamloops, which went down off Isle Royale on Dec. 6, 1927, with a crew of 22 and, says Coghlan, $1,500,000 in papermaking machinery, plus liquor worth $750,000. Coghlan says he found the wreck in U.S. territory last Aug. 6 in 150 ft. of water, three-fourths of a mile off the island. U.S. park rangers chased him off, says Coghlan, and he was on his way to get permission to continue when the storm swamped his barge...
Silver & Jewels. Coghlan also covets Standard Oil Heir William L. Harkness's 2O5-ft. yacht Gunilda, which sank in 200 ft. of water off Rossport on Aug. 31, 1911. Coghlan has researched the Gunilda's last hours, is convinced that $250,000 in silverware and jewels are inside the yacht's rotting hulk. After that he hopes to investigate a promising underwater copper deposit off Rossport. He also thinks he can make money retrieving pulpwood "worth at least $2,000,000" that lines the harbor bottom at Thunder Bay (about one pulpwood log in 20 sinks during...
ATOMIC REACTOR for Puerto Rico, first in the Caribbean, will be built by AEC and used to train Latin American scientists. The 16,300-kw. boiling-water plant, costing $11 million, is scheduled to start operating near Rincón in three years...
Budget Slash. In Monza, Italy, after leaving his horse tied for half a day without food or water, Pietro Nodari returned to give the beast an affectionate pat, got a bite that put him in the hospital for two weeks...