Seven Hundred "Diver's Lungs"
Ordered for U. S. Navy New York, Apr. 1.
Seven hundred safety appliances! have been ordered by the Navy Department, which proposes to equip all United States submarines with them.
The appliance, called the "diver's Lung"
resembles a gas-mask. Oxygen is breathed fr 'a rubber bag strapped to the chest, the ox.
jel air being purified ogam and again by caustic soda, The pliance is buoyant en the wearer afloat indefinitely. It weighs only 23 Ib, Two naval officers using these apphanoes recently successfully tested the escape hatch fitted on the United States submarine S-4, managing to escape successfully from the vessel when she was lying at a depth of 120 ft.
The S-4, it may be recalled, sank year ago with all her crew, but was subsequently raised and transformed into a testing-ship for trying out safety devices for use in the event of aecidents.—Reuter,
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