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Show Perils Faced by Divers. Pejul diving anil ruby mining np-peal np-peal to tlio RamlilliiK Instinct which is part of t lie Huunp.su character. A man may ho a beggar ono ilny mid tho next, through a lucky II ml at diving or digging, may he rich for the rest of his life. Hut jicarl diving has Its perils, some of which may bo gathered gath-ered from tho following passage: "They talk o ambergris and whales and divers' risks; of two recent deaths from tho snapping of the tube. In ono casq tho llfo-tendcr hauled hand-overhand, but" not quick enough to save his man, who camo up dead and black In tho face. Another's helmet, being unadjusted, un-adjusted, lot In the wntor. lie signaled, sig-naled, but was kept down, being "up-Hiscd "up-Hiscd nervous, and ultimately came up dead. Still another diver's head swelled up so that the cuulil prarcely romovo the helmet The diver's llfo In these seas Is u risk) out, short, riotous, lucrative." |