Show SEAT SEA TREASURE I I LURE TO DIVERS tI Ingenious Ingenious' Mechanisms Devised I to Recover Some of Wrecks Wrecks' Beneath Waves ARMORED SUIT IS DESCRIBED Inventor E Explains Device Which Enables Enables Enables En En- ables Him to Work Freely Under Pound Pressure Two Claim Deep Sea Deep Sea Record New York York Before Before the Germans sank a- a single vessel in the late war war It wa was estimated that there w were r strewn strewn- upon the floors of the Seven Seas Sens worth of ships and cargoes cargoes and records indicated that a n large part of these were recoverable Since the war the sum of the oceans ocean's burled treasure Is practically meal meal- Naturally nations now vie with one aI another other for the recovery of choice m morsels sels of this treasure trove and Individual inventors are devoting genius genius ge go- and energy to the evolution of salving devices ranging In size from from the one-man one diving suit to complicated ed eil mechanisms so large that they dwarf the s seagoing vessels of wl which ich they are Integral parts Benjamin Franklin Leavitt of Brooklyn n Inventor of a diving suit who claims the tile sea deep sea record talked talked talked talk talk- ed enthusiastically yesterday about what can cnn be accomplished In recovering recovering ering the shimmering treasures of gold and silver and precious stones with which old oceans ocean's floor Is car car- Incidentally Mr L Leavitt avitt protests most emphatically against the ass assumption mp- mp tion of world-record world honors for any other otiler diving armor than his own He lie backs his protest In n these statements I not only hold the record for deep- deep sea diving but for sea deep-sea salva salvage e. e Grand Traverse Traverse Tra Tra- feet in I w went vent nt down clown verse Bay Michigan and remained down for 4 45 minutes the first time RIme an and at another time nearly two hours This Is the worlds world's record descent desent Capt John l Morgan an of the Morgan Transportation company a cousin of the late J. J P. P Morgan did the soundIng sound sound- Ing He lie took tool three soundings s using a 0 wire sounder and there is no possibility of error Twenty-six Twenty persons witnessed the descent This was In 1916 1010 Two Claim Sea Deep Record I the newspapers of I see by some world claims the I that a Mr Turner record The statement is made that Sr Mr Turner went vent down feet 15 miles off oft Graves Light Massachusetts ss that Look nt at it this chart Conc Conceding ding went down clown and did everything e Turner W can find a he be said be lie did If you ou off 15 mIles foot depth anywhere r S. s Graves Graves' Light Ill I'll eat cat the map heres here's the feet-the deepest water wa- wa vater 04 40 fathom fathoms 15 miles oft otT the light ter Coming now to the question n of his saId that Its divIng dl suIt Mr Leavitt principal point of advantage Is In the supply air arrangement self contain he Is said suit My Iy enough air all for a four- four ml ed carrying tarrying tank submergence The oxygen hour houri reducing valve with a Is connected sure from 1800 1500 which reduces the pre preSure pounds to tile the square 2 pounds to through broUgh a nozzle Inch and spraying nitrogen through a caustic soda sucks with the nitrogen cartridge It mixes the shoulder over and ts is from a tube The one c caustic of the diver poIsonous carbon the absorbs soda and moisture To 10 protect the theman theman dioxIde an the caustic soda I 1 use man from closeS in three valve that automatic reaches It water seconds after alter Itself u tile the weighs pounds suit The Just OO weighed In ta It nie me find with Buoyancy buoyancy however how- how The rho suits suit's pounds pounds of that counteracts ever balance of 7 75 pounds that n a leaving of the sea bottom I on the I b bear that he could 1 I I Mr 11 just as It was wasI armor I the not ot down In Grand I when he went explained he had hadI hadI lie he but verse erse Bay I made macIe several Important I 1 that th descent I 11 learned a lot he said In fact I might sa say i 1 learned more from my first 45 minutes actual experience down on the bottom In my a armor rolO r than han I learned from years ears of lug Ing ug Take Tale the Jointed strut rods down the sides of the I legs gs and both sides of ot the arms for instance They were added after my descent Leavitts Leavitt's Diving Armor Here he reassembled the Uie armor to show how it worked The legs and arms which are very flexible are arc made of rolled hard-rolled copper tubing guaranteed to stand pounds of pressure to the the square Inch These hinged strut rods down both sides of the arm said Mr Leavitt take tl thiV tle pressure from from the wrist to the shoulder The shoulder is a n solid casting of manganese bronze has hasa a bear ball bearing ball ng which allows the man mal within to move his arms which would not be possible without ball bull or rol roller er bearings Here Mr Leavitt whirled d the mm arm around freely to I illustrate his point At a submergence of feet there is pOl pounds pressure here lie Ile called caned atten attention on to the f fact ct that the cable attached to the he top of the helmet has has' a guaranteed lifting strength of pounds In the center center center cen cen- ter of the cable Is the telephone wire connected directly with a small complete complete com corn telephone In the top of ot the hel lid met The diver Is s connected simply with dictaphone ear pieces The hoi bu I Imet I Imet I met Is also equipped with glasses which are triple and I The top of Mr Leavitts Leavitt's desk boasts a miscellaneous assortment of ornaments orna orna orna- I ments Here is a piece of oC hardwood brought up from a wreck The wood had been 52 beneath Lake Huron Hu ron Mich hut but shows no ill III effect from its long submergence nce l. l Less pleasant if more Interesting Is n a a strange old did ld black shoe hoe with wide squa Ue hIe A piece of the foot of it-e it t girl who had been wearing It slipped out of the s slice sioe lOe after wed we'd ha hun had it here n a while said Mr Leavitt Salving a Copper Cargo lIe He wears a strange old ring fished up during luring his salvaging operations This was found In lii connection lol with the tons of cOI copper cOIr r which went down In the in Lake Lale Huron In 1805 The copper was salvaged salvage from a depth of feet Mr 1 says other salvagers had bad tried to goIt go gox it and failed and no less than seven divers In rubber suits had lost th their lI lIlIes lives lI In vain attempts It Is not possible to do salvaging work In winter except In southern waters aters Winter WInter- is the off season said Mr Leavitt But next summer along about June we propose to go after the Merida Merlda which went down 52 miles off Cape Charles She he wa was carrying carr In in slIver silver bars bar alone Silver then was worth nl about 49 40 cents an nn ounce and It has gone up a lot since Besides that there Is In Jey in the sa In the pursers purser's office It w was s pointed out by Mr Leavin that sterling had already been recovered recovered- by British g government divers from the White While Star Dominion liner Laur which was vas sunk In 1017 1917 of off Light When questioned about the pos possibility ity of getting good divers Mr 11 Leavitt replied Good men are scarce as you know now for diving or anything else Still you can usually get a man and If tt f you direct him he can do almost an any any- thing But usually If thrown on his own resources he will be almost help help- less When asked about the possibility of getting the cargo lost when the torpedoed torpedoed torpedoed tor tor- Lusitania went down Mr Leavitt said It should cert certaInly be pos pos- sible sibie In m my armor I can If necessary The Lusitania Lusitania Lu Lu- descend 1000 feet he lie said is in n 85 feet of water As to the value of salvage there Is 2500 I gold In her an and l worth of Imperishable freight such as copper copper cop cop- p per r brass bras iron etc There are also worth of negotiable securities securities ties quite apart from th the valuables jew Jewelry and find cash of ot passengers Arabic lying ab ut sixty y miles from the Lusitania has gold in her She Is in about feet of water Mr Leavitt said that the position of ot these ships hIps would not change bly as there was at most a four knot current at such depths n i |