SWIMMING IN DEAD SEA
GAZETTE REPORTER'S LETTER "MOST AMAZING'* EXPERIENCE SAA imming in the heaAryi waters of the Dead Sea is A r ery different from swimming in ordinary sea AA'ater. A NeAV Zealand soldier, Gunner R. A. Doms, a reporter on the staff of tiie Haurakj Plains Gazette, aa'lio recently spent a AA r eek's in Palestine, describes his efforts to "swim" in a letter to his p£irents in Christchurch. "The AA'ater is thirteen times as dense as ordinary sea water," he wrote, "and so full of minerals: that it stings the face. I walked in to mv waist, and my feet left the bottom. I tried to SAvim, but, Avhile flat in the Avater, my feet and legs AA r ere right out. I' tried to stand up, but could not force my legs clown again —it Avas most amazing."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 135, 30 July 1941, Page 8
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142SWIMMING IN DEAD SEA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 135, 30 July 1941, Page 8
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