DIVES FOR LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1918, Page 3

DIVES FOR LIFE.

TENSE MOMENTS IN' A-SUBMAKINB K There are in- .the- -Submarine Service "two recognised types of "dives." The. first may be called the "dive ordinary," and is usually, referred to as "I plunged." Ihe second is tlae "crash dive," and if jooi heal - a submarine officer remark, "I pulled the plug and went to 100 feet," you will bo correct in supposing that he executed a "crash dive."

Some experts divide "crash dives'' into two classes:

:(a) The "•crash dive in ordinary." (b) The "super-crash dive."

I Hie "super-crash dive" is the dive executed in the life or death emergencies, when a, delay of a second in the present jmay mean eternity forthwith.

It is the dive executed, by a subarine, who while charging her batteries at ,niglh.t on the surface, sights the knife-l-edge .bows of a destroyer flanked by two walls of foam approaching her from a range of a few hundred yards at a speed of 1000 yards a minute. The naval situation being what it is, the "super-crash dive'" is a feat performed frequently by the Germans, and only in certain, peculiar circumstances-by our own boats.

The "crash diva 5n ordinary" i 3 frequently performed iby all classes ofsubmarines. It simply means that tlhe boat gets under as fast as sho can. "Super-' crash dives" are a shade faster than this, and are usually accomplished by the order "Hood everything." This lias sometimes been obeyed too literally, and fihe boat has submerged with the conning tower hatch open, with the inevitable result that the submarine has been flooded permanently in a manner detrimental to the lives of the personnel. On the other oeasions tihe "lid" has' been shut as the boat began to sink before everyone could get down. Those remauring then have no option then but to flout as gracefully as circumstances permit on the surface of the sea. There is not even time to take one's coat off.

In tike "crash dive," supposing there' are three persona on the top of the con-ning-tow.er, the diving bell is pressed, and as the boat inclines forward and begins to slide under the water No. 1 drops as rapidly as possible down the hatch;; No. 2 performs certain necessary (Operations, which takes perihaps three seconds, and then likewise disappears. His progress is frequently accelerated by No. 3 —the captain of tho boat — treading on his head as he goes down j the ladder. No. 3 pußs the lid down as the gets to head inside. By this time the level of the sea is 'probably about sixr-inches4)elow thwedge of the hatch. "Crash dives" ten executed wheiMiircraft wihose intentions are suspect appear suddenly, or when a German submarine unexpectedly arrives on the «udface to view the scenery, Diving a big boat is a delicate matter, and there is a story that one captain exasperated with the antics of his command, telephoned from the bows of his submarine to Ibis "sub" in the stern, "I say, 'sub,' my end is diving. What's vours doing!"—"Etienne," in the* Daily Mail.

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