An expedition is to leave here to seek the town of St James, former capital of St. Kitts Island, which has lain for over two and a half centuries under 300 feet of water.
With the aid of recently developed helium diving suits, explorers hope to walk along the streets of this town, a flourishing island city before an earthquake dropped it into the sea in 1680.
The leader of the expedition is Captain Robert Hall of Detroit, who conceived the present project when he explored Caribbean waters in 1932. "When the sea is calm off St. Kitts" Captain Hall explained, "you can see, in the crystal-clear water 300 feet below, the dim outline of the coral-encrusted walls of the ancient town that was a thriving community long before the Revolutionary War, long before there was any United States at all."
A diver has been down to a depth of 420 feet in the new type of suit that will be used. No air tube is Plane Crashes with
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