MARAROA SAFE.
RFA CUES WELLINGTON WHARF.
DIVER’S MISHAP,
Wellington, Feb, 25
The Mararoa, which grounded at Tauragirae Point on Saturday morning, was towed oft; by the tug Terawhiti at high water at about live o’clock on Tuesday evening. The vessel was apparently undamaged, but had to be towed to port owing to (he hawser fouling (he-
propeller. While endeavouring to free the Mararoa’s propeller from the hawser which fouled it yesterday, the Union Company’s diver, Smith, met with a peculiar mishap. He was working all afternoon, and about 5 o'clock no response to signals indicated that something was wrong. Two other divers were secured, and they went down and found Smith entangled, held tightly in the loop of a hawser. Nearly two hours’ work was necessary to free him. Smith was uninjured, though rather exhausted by the long immersion in trying circumstances. The Mararoa sailed for the south last evening.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1679, 27 February 1917, Page 2
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150MARAROA SAFE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1679, 27 February 1917, Page 2
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