SUNKEN TREASURE
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EGYPT'S GOLD DIVERS' FIGHT TO ENTER • BULLION ROOM SUCCEEDS SALVAGE SHIP'S LONG SEARCH
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Rec. Nov. 2, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Monday. The salvage ship Antiglio's divers proceeded yesterday with the opening of the Egypt's bullion room. So far as they are able to see there is bullion valued at £1,000,000 in the room and • it should be possible to raise it without mueh difficulty. Work was impossible "to-day. However, the opening of the bullion room achieved the most formidable part of three years' work so full of hitherto unsolved problems and unknown perils. It is unlikely that any under-water work comparable to it will ever be done again. Divers throughout the summer of 1929 fruitlessly searched for the sunken wreck, but last year the Artiglio and the Raffio located and identified the Egypt, but both these salvage vessels lie at the bottom of the sea. The Artiglio was sunk by the explosion of an ammunition ship on which she was worlcing in Quibron Bay, and the Raffio capsized in Guernsey last April while working on a wreck.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 61, 3 November 1931, Page 3
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