Swimming With Flippers
An unusual demonstration of underwater swimming was given by Mr M. T. Butterick at the final meeting of the Canterbury swim- : ming championship carnival. With rubber flippers attached to his feet like those used by the “frogmen” of the Royal- Navy during the war, he swam a length of the bath underwater without using his hands, in a time that would do credit to a good freestyle swimmer employing the normal method on the surface. He swam the return trip on his back, again without using. his hands, in good time. Aided by the flippers, he can swim more than 50 yards underwater on only one breath with ease. Shark Landed Barehanded Three men with their bare hands landed a seven-foot shark at the mouth of the Tukituki River at Haumoana the other day. They were line fishing at the river mouth when one of them saw the shark stranded in about 6in. of water and grabbed it by the tail. With the assistance of the other two men the big fish was hauled ashore and killed with a heavy boulder. When opeend it was found to contain an octopus.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 95, 17 February 1947, Page 3
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193Swimming With Flippers Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 95, 17 February 1947, Page 3
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