Show DEVICE TO RECOVER TREASURE FROM SAND To the mouth of ot the River Colne o off oU Brightling sea an extraordinary machine was towed and anchored recently It is to be used In ln a final attempt to recover I the treasure of gold In coins coin and bars Which is said to have gone down in her majesty's steamship Lutine in 1787 near the island of ot Terse Terse-helling off or the coast cont of Holland loland says the London Daily Daiy Mall Mail A portion of the treasure has been porton re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered but all al ordinary dredging plants are now useless as the vessel has sunk into the sand sad The new device is a great steel tube feet in length and wide enough to alow allow a man to walk erect down Its Is center At one end is wal a metal cham chani- ber provided o with I windows d and doors and at the other othera t a medley ed of r giant I hooks g B and other The apparatus has Just been completed after y years ars of work by a firm of ship I builders One end of ot the tube exP explained ex ex- ex- ex a member e of the firm recently P will mEge be clamped l to o the side of a steamship steamship steam steam- ship or barge The other end by means rbt f Tt of water t ballast st tanks kos will I be s sunk km until ri it touches the bottom Then by means of compressed air all aU the water will wi be forced from the tube and also from the chamber at the bottom of It flush upon the bed of the sea Divers will wl walk down a stairway In Inthe Inthe the tIm center of ot the tube until they reach reach tho submerged chamber Hero they will willdon willdon wi don their diving costumes costumE's and opening a series of watertight doors will wl step straight out into the water Engineers will wi be stationed in the chamber and following tho the Instructions of the divers who will communicate with them by means of portable telephones I h J they w will f operate the mechanism of ot two powerful suction n pumps lP or dredges r which are fitted to the sY sides of f the tube rh These aJ dredges e It i is hoped will wi suck away the sand around the sides of the heavy beavy chamber until it gradually d sinks b by its S down f g oro weight right down clown on the deck of the wrecked ship Then the divers making their way from the chamber to the deck of the ship and then then to the hold will wi be beable beable beable able to transfer the treasure from the ship to the chamber chamber by easy stages |