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Updated: June 23, 2025
The blue water gradually shifted to green, then lighter green, and finally the white of lovely beaches on both sides of the island. Lines of surf marked the position of reefs off both shores. Somewhere along the western reef was the wreck of the Maiden Hand. Rick wondered if they would have diver's luck and locate the ancient bark, and at the same moment he was sure they would.
But he must seek a new means of hold, if he was to work to release the unfortunate man. Joe looked down at the water-covered ground, now illuminated by the electric light. He saw just what he needed. Near the outlet pipe, in the valve of which the diver's foot was caught, was an old stump. There was a root exposed a root with a sort of loop and under this Joe thrust one foot.
Wan would think he had sense enough not to be eatin' av a tough sailorman. Big head, nothin' in it, as the sayin' is." Andrews was standing near the rail and appeared much interested in the diver's work. The fact that it had been interrupted angered him. His face took on that hideous expression of ferocity I knew meant mischief, and a string of the foulest oaths followed.
He switched on his diving torch, and color returned within its beam. A swirl of weed, pink in the light, became darkly emerald beyond as if it possessed the chameleon ability of the burrowers. He was distracted by that phenomenon, and so he transgressed the diver's rule of never becoming so absorbed in surroundings as to forget caution. Just when did Ross become aware of that shadow below?
Of course I don't remember. Neither do you." "Oh, don't I? What's the harm recalling old times? I remember when you tried to make Todd a winter overcoat and he said it looked most as good as a deep-sea diver's outfit. My Hannah nearly died a-laughing." Fortunately Steve appeared, flourishing Beatrice's corsage by way of a greeting. "Aha, the conquerer comes.
How can I, if I haven't any money? And besides, I've got my whaleback stuff to write. I'll have supper at the Club, and go up in the library and grind out copy for a while." "Condy," said Blix, "I think that diver's story is almost too good for 'The Times. Why don't you write it and send it East? Send it to the Centennial Company, why don't you?
Kelp's no good and iodine's useful that's all I know. Diver's goin' over and comin' this way," he added, with sudden animation. "Watch close, now, and maybe you'll see him pick up an abalone shell, and look up and make faces. It's right remarkable how long some o' them divers can stay under the water. Look sharp!" Clancy and Hill looked sharp, but they couldn't see anything of the diver.
It was deeper than he had ever gone down before five times as deep as his glass tank in the circus. Joe took the iron bar in both hands and worked himself as near to the outlet pipe as he dared go. One end of the bar was pointed, and Joe inserted this between the lead sole of the diver's boot and pried cautiously.
It was made of water-proof material and had a large helmet of copper with great circular glasses in front that looked like goggle eyes. Captain Jules explained that there were two lines with which the diver communicated with the outside world. The one was the air line, and it was used to pump air down to the man below in the water. The life line was usually hitched around the diver's waist.
Each inspiration of air has the same effect on the lungs, and the pressure, inside and outside, being at once equalised, is in their case unfelt, although it remains and tests the strength of the animal tissues. Hence it is a recognised rule that a man who has at any time spat blood is unsuited to a diver's work, as his weak blood-vessels are apt to burst.
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