LIFE SAVING GEAR
SUBMARINE RISKS REDUCED The Admiralty has just concluded in Loch Long, near Arrochar, Dumbartonshire, tests with an apparatus which, it is hoped, will enable crews to escape from disabled submarines. The apparatus, which weighs about 51b., resembles in appearance the oxygen apparatus worn by firemen, and the principle is the regeneration of expired air. Four men of the minesweeper Tedworth, of Devonport, have been testing the apparatus. They were sunk in a chamber—corresponding to a submarine—to a depth of 21 fathoms. Then, strapping cn their apparatus, they made their way out of the chamber and rose to the surface. Mr. R. W. Davis, son of the head of Messrs. Siebe Gorman and Co., submarine engineers, Westminster Bridge-road, S.E., the firm which designed the apparatus said to a reporter afterwards: “More than a dozen satisfactory tests were made. The average time taken to reach the surface was 75 seconds, so that the men did not suffer front the effects of decompression.” Another apparatus tested by tbe Admiralty at the same time was a de- | compression chamber to enable a diver ito rise to the surface more quickly ! than at present, thereby reducing the exposure.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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196LIFE SAVING GEAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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