SAFETY AT SEA.

Shannon News, 18 October 1929, Page 2

SAFETY AT SEA.

“NO NEED POR SEASICKNESS.” “No one need suffer seasickness,” was the claim of the. makers of an apparatus exhibited at-the Shipping and Engineering Machinery Exhibition at Olympia. Voyagers inhaling five minutes before the voyage a mixture of oxygen and medicaments from an atomiser are guaranteed complete immunity. If the 'mixture is taken after the syptoms are shown, an effective cure is claimed in 85 per cent, of cases. • The exhibits include a “magic ray,” and an automatic lookout which rings a boll instantly if any object, even a fog-bank, crosses the ship’s path. Other inventions designed to improve the human element, include an instrument on the bridge, sensitive to the slightest smoke, for detecting fires in the hold—after which the pressure of a button on the bridge floOdfl tllO hold—extinguishing gas, a pistol extinguisher claimed to be able to put out a 20ft blaze, and a fire-prooltng preparation which makes woodwork proof against an oxyacetylene flame.