Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 408
all ofthem most carefully selected for their splendidphysical condition. I should explain that the deeper one goes intowater the more terrible is the pressure upon thebody. When Diver Lambert was sending up theboxes of gold out of the Alphonso XII, there wasno less a pressure than eighty-eight and… … .PING DIVERS PUT ON THEIR HEAVY SUITS. have befallen him when he came up again. The work of a naval diver is not by any meansconfined to war time, although every one knowshow useful a member of the ships crew thisis when giant projectiles are being fired at thevessel, and she is perhaps pierced…
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