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Show DIVER WALKS ON BOTTOM OF SEA San Francisco, Oct. 12. Jules Verne's dream of men walking aiound the bottom of the sea was made real today when Herman Slciz-ener, Slciz-ener, an Inventor of Tuebeck Ger many, walked arouna the bottom of San Francisco bay for forty-five ujn.utes. carrying ofl a lively convocation con-vocation by means of a telephone v im several men In a boat 100 feet above his head. Sietzencr. accord -lrg 10 experts, has revolutionized deep sea diving with a scientific invention in-vention that will prove a blessing to mariners, With his Giving machine, the German Inventor says that he rill be able to recover millions of dol'ars that He burled leagues and leagues under the sea Is various p,rts of the world He has made practical, say experts, the dreams of treasure hunters who. since the time of Captain Kidd, hav spent their Iive6 am) fortunes to recover gold lost somewhere In the deep water I bv treasure ships The Stelsener Invention differs widely from anv diving machine ever seen In the Cnlted States Or ny part I of the world In apperance tbere ' seems to be verv little difference but the helmet of the German apparatus Is as scientific and delicate as a Swiss watch. The diver Is supplied with sir from a tank strupped to his back and chest j regulated according 1fi nls wants by mehtis of valves. There is a telephone tele-phone capable of communication for an unlimited distance. Tins air pressure pres-sure Is tabulated by a small delicate I guiige. and the time Is readily Md by I means of a watch. I All these conveniences are located so that the diver has out to lift hit j cy cs to see them an. The diving machine used todav i i the only one of its kind in the I'mt eil States With It a diver can go 300 feet below the surface and stay three hours although Stelrener is now perfecting a machine of a different dif-ferent model capable of going a depth or 60fi fef which he Is going to bring to San Francisco In 1915 and make an effort to locate the J 3,000.000 thlt went to the bottom of the bay on the steamer Rio Janeiro. The old diving suit was unable to rio?cend below a depth of ninety feet. 210 feel leas than the rcord of the apparatus tried out today. Stelzener descended from the boat o the bottom of Ihe bay lOO fet deep In four minutes and walked cround for forty-five minutes. Thursday morning Stelrener will nuke an effort to recover the safe containing ?5r.non belonging to the Selby Smelting company that went ! to the bottom of the bay when the i steamer Seminole collided with and sunk the James H Corcoran No effort hnd been made by any local ihver to recover thai money as it ii a' depth dangerous to the old ! st; le diving sul'. nn |