Show DEEP SEA DIVER CHEATS DEATH BY WORKING OUT OWN CURE FOR THE BENDS bayonne N J after cheating death with a self effected cure from the bends lewis marenholtz Saren holtz 40 a deep sea diver Is awaiting his next assignment to go down to the tha oceans floor proud ot of hla his prowess as a sand ilog hog lie ho was doubly proud of the resourcefulness which enabled him to work ills his own cure while doctors policemen and firemen were in despair r marenholtz Saren holtz hoitz had been diving for or jettisoned jetti liquor 0 of robbins reef and was held at tho the harbor bottom tor for tour four hours when hla his apparatus jammed when repairs were finally made he was drawn up too quickly although feeling the first symptoms of the bends properly known as calason caisson disease he left the scene of operations for hla his home hom a P pedestrians edest rians along bayonne streets saw him reeling and notified police ile he was taken in an ambulance to bayonne hospital there he said simply simple the bends I 1 need an air decompression tank the hospital had so such facility neither had the bayonne police or fire departments fire officials called new york where neither police nor tire fire departments could suggest a place of treatment while new york police were calling officials of the board ot of transportation marenholtz Saren holtz had bad already remembered a previous occasion c when lie he had been the victim of the disease and was rushed in a hospital ambulance to new york so when dr edward levy of the board of transportation recommended an all air chamber beneath the west side elevated highway the ambulance containing saren holtz was already nearing the spot marenholtz Saren holtz entered the chamber and ordered a compression of 29 pounds poll n ds to the square inch from the interior he operated the valves I 1 himself and was taken out several minutes later cured refusing offers to spend the n night ight in a new york hospital he leaped pajama clad into the bayonne ambulance and rode back home |