Show DIVER FINDS KEY TO DAVY JONES' JONES I LOCKER COMES UP DEAD DRUNK LONDON March 8 Elbow R-Elbow- P Elbow Elbow- benders may well doff dof hats to Tom Torn the man who sat at the bottom of ot the ocean and drank whisky with with water under his chin and 60 GO feet teet of it on top of him him drinking when a slip dip would have drowned him like a rat in ina a trap I The story of ot Tom was vas told to the Royal Society of Arts by Sir Robert Davis noted a authority on ond d deep ep sea diving and here it is Tom a diver working on a wreck had sent up no cargo for tor forthe forthe the last couple of ot hours and everybody became anxious anxious' about him At Jl last t he shot to the surface surface sur sur- face and was dragged to the thc lad lad- der Then it was seen that he was Yet he went down as sober as as' asa a horse at nt a funeral and nd the chief salvage office set seL about clearing up the thc mystery This is how Tom did it As AB j J the th the ship sank she had heeled over slightly to one side Some Somer air r in the hold hoM instead of escapIng ing out of ot the hatch when the water poured in in had been trapped in the thc angle formed by bythe bythe bythe the side of the ship and the tween deck When the cargo was worked out out of this side more air was released Some of this instead d off making its way up the ha hatch hatchin h hin in bubbles was also trapped under under un un- der the thc tween deck This was supplemented by tho the air from the escape valve of the divers diver's helmet until a pocket of air arr perhaps 18 inches deep was formed In the thc angle The diver working under the thc tween l deck suddenly discovered that his hands were out of water Not long afterward he discovered cases of whisky Having carried up a case cue and opened it he sat on top of the cargo carlO and with 0 water within an inch of ot the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom of t his mouthpiece and 60 feet of water ov over r his head unscrewed un mm- screwed the thc mouthpiece and knocked the neck off of the bottle tTo To avoid interruption from the surface and to defeat deleat an any at tempt made from the thc diving boat to pull him up unexpectedly he het t took ok a turn with his his' lifeline around a convenient stanchion He was there free to enjoy himself him him- self seU with self with the knowledge that if he sl slipped pp d if U there W was any sudden sudden sud sud- den movement in the water if for tor an any reason the air should escape from under the tween deck or if it he had miscalculated his own capacity and failed ailed to screw his mouthpiece c on again he wo would ld be drowned like a rat ratIn ratin ratin In a trap Sir Robert surveyed his audience audience audience audi audi- divers ence and added But cannot afford to suffer sulCer from rom nerves I. I t r I j jf |