STORMY TASMAN SEAS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 1937, Page 5

STORMY TASMAN SEAS

SEVERE CYCLONES CABLE SHIP’S EXPERIENCE Very Little Work Accomplished Press Association —Copyright. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, May 3. When the cable ship Recorder reached port to-day, the officers told of six s ormy weeks spent in the Tasman Sea, which for the last month has been in one of its worst and most variable moods. In addition to a number of heavy "blows,” the Recorder encountered three separate cyclones, all of great severity, and on each occasion she hove 'to for a number of days while mountainous seas often swept over the bridge. On occasions the crew would be engaged in lifting the cables from the ocean bed, when a storm would work up in lets than an hour, damaging the lifting gear before the crew had time to cast it off. Very little of the work the crew set out to do—the relaying of portions of the cable between Sydney and Auckland —was accomplished in the six weeks *•*>« vessel left Auckland, as it was impossible to work in the extreme •weather conditions. Afnother attempt will be made after a short stay at Sydney.