Divers Grope in Darksome Jungle On Sunken German Battleship
(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) ReccT. 11.6 a.m. _ , LONDON, Sunday. DIVERS descending- to the upturned bottom of the 24,000ton German battleship Kaiser at Scapa Flow to begin salvage operations encountered a six-foot jungle of marine, growths, extending all over the ship’s 564 feet length and 95 width. In this growth lurk all manner of denizens of the deep. Portions of the growth are as thick as a man’s wrist. It was dangerous, and almost impossible to proceed until tracks had been eitt. . A diver states that it was like a pitch-dark night when they groped among the growths towering above their heads.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 9
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112Divers Grope in Darksome Jungle On Sunken German Battleship Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 9
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