Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — CAN LUSITANIA BE SALVED? [ARTICLE]

CAN LUSITANIA BE SALVED?

Secret plaWare being made to recover the tr.easut'e which sank with the Lusitania. lr is- believed 4hat the* money, jewelry and other valuables are worth at least $5.000.000. Even the possibility of salving the Lusitania herself is being considered, but no definite plans for this bold enterprise can be-niade until divers have examined her condition. The .position of the ship, eight miles off tbe . Old Head of Kinsale, has bediT charted and she

Iles 270 feet down. Such a depth a few years ago would have rendered salvage work practically unthinkable, but modern improvement in diving apparatus has made it possible for divers to work at that and even greater depths for considerable periods of time at a stretch. This was demonstrated in ' raising tbe 'United States submarine F-4. which sank outside of Honolulu harbor last year, “and was floated .and towed into the harbor "five ,nipnt-h< ..later,\ She lay on a slop;? Of the ocean bed. her bow. 2S& feet, below the surface and her stern reel; yet divers work, .1 in fair comfort at these depths, and thereby established a world’s record.