PERILOUS JOB
LEAK REPAIRED IN MID-OCEAN
(United Press Association—Py Eleatru
Telogi pn—Copyngnt.)
(tl-eceived this day at 11.15 a.m.l LONDON, December 6.
Five hundred passengers on the Contcdisavoia breathlessly watched a seaman, Amatruda, dangling from the end ,of a seventy foot rope above the turbulent Atlantic, risking his life to plug a ten inch leak, The liner broke-down eight hundred miles from New York owing to a defect in the 'discharge pipe, causing trouble in the. turbo generator, and resulting in 'the/leak. Amatruda responded to the call for volunteers. He was /frequently submerged, and fvorked for three hours under floodlights. The vessel proceed-' ed at a reduced speed, the stabilisers working well. 1 The paij-engeis rewarded Amatruda whom th e Government probably will recognise.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 6
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123PERILOUS JOB Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 6
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