A DIVER SET ADRIFT AT SEA TO

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1868, 3 October 1874, Page 3

A DIVER SET ADRIFT AT SEA TO

TEST A LIFE-BUOY. Paul Boynton, a somewhat noted pearldiver of Atlantic City, is sooq to go t0,,. New York to make arrangemeats for : what might reasonably be termed a.; hazardous undertaking. 0. S. Merriman, . of New York, the patentee of the life- ' dress, has offered 500 dollars to Mr Boynton to make a sea voyage in his • suit, in order to demonstrate to the public its merits as a life-preserver. He has ' accepted the proposal, and on or about the 25th September (the past month) he will be carried from New. York by ah oiitwardbound steamer to, a, .distance not less than two hundred miles from land, when he will be dropped and ; . left to the mercy of the.waves.until he ,". shall meet a passing vessel. |He will': carry with him in a rubber bag sufficient : rations, consisting of doied meats, &c.,for one week, as well as a good quantity of fresh water. Ho will also carry signallights and flags, with a sectional staff twelve feet long for raising them, all of ; which are to be stowed away in the un« '.. limited portals of the rubberbag, which is about two feet square, and is little or no iaconvenience, strapped to and floated at the side of the swimmer. The feat by many may be considered as deliberately , challenging death, but Mr Boynton is very sanguine of success, and even says .;•' that he would willingly allow himself to : be left a thousand miles out if necessary. ■ In order to test the invention thoroughly, he has chosen the mentioned date as the one when he will be most likely to encounter the severe equinoctial gales.