Submarine Appliances And Their Uses
Deep Sea Diving, &c., &c.

mg date 1535, and twenty of wrought iron. The latter were of peculiar construc- tion, each gun being made of wrought-iron bars secured by thirty-three hoops. Many other relics were recovered, including granite shot, ancient bows, etc. Diver diver engaged on a harbour works had a curious experience a few years a Conger. d£>°- lle was repairing an old sea wall, when, to his horror, the head of a huge fish suddenly darted out of a hole in the wall quite close to where he was working, and tried to attack him, only missing him by a few inches. Subsequent investiga- tion showed that the fish was a huge conger, which by some means had got trapped in the worn masonry, and was unable to get more than its head through the hole, for, although it was observed many times afterwards to seize passing fish, its body was never seen. A full-grown conger, weighing, perhaps, a hun- dredweight, and measuring eight or nine feet long, is an ugly customer to tackle, even in a boat. If it gets hold of a man’s arm or leg, the only thing to do is to cut its head oft, and even then its jaws will have to be prised open. SUBMARINE SCENERY. In some tropical waters the submarine scenery is very beautiful, the marine flora being unequalled by anything that grows on terra -firma. Working amid such surroundings, the pearl or sponge diver’s lot is indeed cast in pleasant places as compared with that of his less fortunate brother working in a London dock for instance. Photo No. 107 Copyright. Photo No. 107. shows a Cannon and some Shot re- covered by Divers from the British Man o’ War, “ La Lutine,'’ captured from the French, and which was lost with all hands near the island of Ter- schelling, off the Dutch coast, in r 799, with the equivalent of half a million pounds sterling aboard. Of this sum £100,000 has been recovered during the past century. The vessel is deeply embedded in the sandy bottom, which fact renders the task of the salvors an exceptionally difficult one. Powerful sand suckers have been 01 00