Show experience in diving bell how it feels to go down into the sea in a diving bell Is described as follows by one who the descent pit ting on a pair of stockings leggings and heavy boots I 1 jumped on to the seat when the huge bell it weighed forty tons and was as large as a good sized room was swung by the power ful crane over the staging and bradu ally we were lowered into the sea the sensation at first was very strange we entered the water which was driven out of the bell by compressed air there was a distinct buzzing round the ears and head I 1 was told to hold my nose and blow through it and I 1 did so slowly we de scented and at last reached the hot torn some fifty feet below the surface tha bell in question was seventeen feet long and ten leet wide there were six of us in it it was lighted by electricity and almost as bright as day we first landed on a bed which the divers had previously leveled the moment the bell touched the ground there was perhaps about two feet of water o 0 it this was quickly driven out by the compressed air when we walked on comparatively dry ground with the sea all around us by sending signals up to the man in charge of the great crane to which the bell Is attached the apparatus can be moved as its occupants wish after inspecting the smooth bed on which the bottom blocks are laid we went out to ea and landing on the bottom again obtained some idea ot the difficulties of digging a foundation on the floor of the ocean it was ragged and rocky four men work in a bell under a pressure of 27 pounds to the square inch tor three hours at a time digging up the ground until it Is perfectly smooth and level the material Is thrown into a large wood en box swung in the center of the bell climbing to our seats again the man gave the necessary signals and away we went all under water of course until we landed once more the stones just placed in post tion the electric lights in the bell are placed closed to the thick little glass windows when we stayed on the bottom qu egiy for a little while the fish darted at the light but at the noise of a shovel they quid ly digap feared |