Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-09 | Page 12 | Deep Sea Diving Exhibit Planned

DEEP SEA DIVINE ElBllliSED Navy Recruiting Officer Arranges Ar-ranges for Aquatic Show in Salt Lake. Pa!t Lake win eoon be given an exhibition exhi-bition of diving In deep aea. equipment If plani oT i-tputennnt t'ommantlrr Richard Rich-ard Jiay iMann, senior naval officer on recruiting duty In the district of Utah, materialize. Owinff to the fact that people peo-ple of the Inland district? have littl op-port op-port tin! ty of witnessing dc.p tea divers in action, Commander Mann has com-municflted com-municflted with the Inappofor in charge of the western district, at Mare Island, Cat., In an effort to obtain divinx paraphernalia with whlrh to put on the exhibition. It will b a Pimple- matter to net volunteers vol-unteers for this purpowp, according to Commander Mann, us there ar three qualified deep sea divers stationed at the Suit Lake recruiting ofiice, all of whom have done actual work. John F. I'almer, gunner's mate, third c!n9, who la a gruduate of thi divers' bchool ut the Pacific Pa-cific co.it torpedo station. Key port, Va?h and in qua 1 1 f !cj (or diving at a upih of one hurvlrvd and two feet; J. T. Oliver, chi'f quartermaster, and Commander Com-mander Mann, who received his training wlitlfj nt A nun p.dt, on practice cr-uitfes and while on duty aboard ship, comprise Ihe trio. The latent diving outfit, which la equipped with improvements such as telephone tele-phone and electric lights, has been asked for by Com in and or Mann, and it la expected ex-pected to arrive within the next two weeks. The complete outfit Includes rubber rub-ber overalls, steel helmet, fifty-pound welghU for each foot, loaded belt weih-lni? weih-lni? Pixty pounds, under;?. -a fixes and ha tchets and the air pump. The Hteel helmet, In the top of which is the opening open-ing for the rubber air hose rind electric wires, Is secured to the l.ody of the suit by Htecl pasketH and turnbuckles. A life line, UHUtilly of hemp, it) worn about the body of the diver as protection in caso of emergency. The exact date for the exhibition will be determined when the outfit arrives, and It will probably be on a Sunday afternoon. af-ternoon. It is planned nt present to make the decent in the lagoon at liberty fmrk, which Ih not very deep, no that the diver may bo easily scon by people on the banks.