T.I. Lugger Fatality
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From Our Own Correspondent.
THURSDAY IS., August 21.
A JAPANESE diver, only 22 years of age, met his death recently while pearling. He was working with only a helmet and corselet, and it is thought water accidentally surged up into his hel met. His compatriots, thinking that he was only suffering from an attack of diver’s paralysis, lowered him again into the sea for the usual treatment that often cures this, but in vain. This is the third similar fatality from the same lugger dur ing the past few months.
Near Darnley Island there is a special place, not far from the Great Barrier Reef, which is very deep, and its richness in M.O.P. shell attracts the alien divers, notwithstanding the risk which has fre quently been fatal. Few of the Japanese divers use the complete dress nowadays, but only don the helmet and the corselet.
They say that they can ascend quicker than wearing the whole outfit.