I 1 under the hon georgo lt orga W townsend a well known submarine divert direr has baa boon been interviewed in relation to his experience 11 Us bays 11 tho first timo time a man goes down he Is apt to bo be considerably bearid on account of attlio the pre I 1 in I 1 a man munis is low ered too fast it t vi mil ill kill ladin hidu divers aro are seldom or never killed by bj drowning but by an unequal tsuro A diver could out a holo bolo in the lower portion of his hia suit auit without danger of 0 being drowned so ito long no aa he istook erect for us long as aa air air la Is supplied by the air pomp the tha water could not reach hla his lit iti deep wilier water the P preB guie la Is usually very great and a diver iver oiin can descend as aa deep us aa ho in can baand the pressure 11 you sets boa wo arti laft a vi tanum there is IB no perceptible to us on the coopper helmets about our heads the rho pressure is all upon the lower loner garments and if it in ie too great freir it drives drive all thu the blood in in the body it to thu tho tea aud and tho ilu ia u I 1 have seen deou men killed in thiu this way whose liend leticia were fairly split open and eyes vea wore iriven driven from t their heir sockets aborah A more horrible death could not lu ito imagined anti and I 1 and almost all other divers divera havo have narrowly escaped it iti divers seldom Ettl Joia descend over ono one hundred bad and sixty nty feet I 1 and rarely as goei 1001 us no that under the ehg auter ator tho the oarb ears fiel feel stopped up bat sometimes wo 0 oin n ma aitho its ourselves onra elTea understood by put putting tl n g two together and shouting but then it dees not bonnil louder than un an ordinary whisper A man who went down tor for the crat timo would be ba likely to come up after feel ing the tha sure iio in tho the ears can which ia 11 very unpleasant until you ore are thoroughly used to it how about the flah fish do they MT ever molest you very seldom Beldom you bo wo we make maha it a ru lula I 1 a not to disturb them wo know that they aro are in their element clement an and w wa a are not nol in ours oun As aa for sharks we ire dont care for them the they y aro are cowardly and easily daily frightened OIL off we anro much mo mora ras afraid of the tha barlo otas a surface figlia with teeth three inches loni long talk about fish why ono one cant can t havo have tiny conception of ct them until he be has been bean under the water an anil seen BOSH them of all sizes bizga and all colors of elf tho the rainbow tho the notes mado made by a school of fish hounds under tho the water like the rumbling of thunder one of tho the grea trobe cario it aites m abia lioe line wt liia tho the jew hill I 1 eneo entered ered bhela diving in tho the bay of camana Oi imana on the coast of vents veno zuela the fish fiah tire aro from faix to fifteen foot in in length and havo have it a lirra largo mouth with small octh the jew ush fish layo a great brent deal of curiosity moro than any woman thit that I 1 know of and used to eye us while we wa were at work wo we were a little afraid of them at first but found that they would not li harm carria us I 1 sup poets you yon irva have heard of the electric eel which hua the power to give it n shook equal to any batte battery ry when wo were diving at the west i indies aa 04 I 1 ono one of our mier diver miers divers ers received rooe ived a shock from an electric eel imd and for a timo time lie ho seemed almost paralyzed aly zeil mules und and other animals when fording for liag streams lit in this country co antry often receive a shook it depends upon how clear the tha water is is whether it is dirk dark or not I 1 have been down twenty fathoms of water where I 1 could see BOO to read the unest finest print und and I 1 have been down ton ten feet where you could not sea BOO your hand before you it is is not very pleni ant t exploring a wreck especially where there are deal bodies I 1 when you aro are in utter darkness we got get used to tot those hoBO aud while I 1 cant say bay that we don t mind them 1 I can say that they lont dont deter us ua from rom going down I 1 am ono one of 0 those who bellere believe that drowning is ia an easy death campara dively because I 1 have noticed that the face of a d drowned n at person looks as aa it he haa gone gona to sleep eop anil and seldom denotes pain but bat when the eyes are wide open and glassy in ia app a araboo mad aad the gas in ia the stomach mis kes the tha body stand bolt upright it is ia rather trying to the gervea sometimes yomo times wo we flad drowned persons with it death grip upon a piece of rigging or on the tha side of 0 a bank and it is is very to their hold before we see sea a body or an ob joet jact under ike water we wa always see eoe the shadow to looking for a body not on a bossola vos ves sola wr areek cick we sometimes somo timos find it by following the sediments intha in the water in many places the bottom of 0 the is beautiful especially where the coral reefs are coral to loika As lilia like a forest of tress trees that lias has been out cut down I 1 havo have soon boon corall ua as large us as the 0 f any tree trea you ever maw with enormous in limbs running downward the trunk and anal tho the branches bra nohen being ot the purest white coral I 1 b vo a coral reel reef utter descending three aua a bottom of lit pnra white sand band after descending desoe two fathoms more