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wilbur chamberlin : surf-riding at waikiki, 1900
wilbur chamberlin : surf-riding at waikiki, 1900
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A Life Boat That
Can't Capsize or Sink
A NEW life-boat built along the lines of a big surf board, has proved so satisfactory that it has been officially adopted by the city of Long Beach, California. The boat, sixteen feet long, forty inches wide and fourteen inches deep, is non-capsizable and self-draining, and is the invention of A. M. Nelsen of Long Beach. It has many advantages over the skiffs now used by the municipal life-guard squad of that city. It can be put out through the heaviest surf without waiting for a calm. It has air tanks on both sides, at the ends, and down the middle, and has a glass bottom through which bodies that may have sunk may be located. With one man paddling, and the other stretched at full length peering through the glass bottom, a body can be located in twenty feet of water and brought to the surface by means of grappling hooks or by diving after it. |
 The
buoyant air tanks are at
both sides, at the ends, and down the middle. |
 The new life-guard boat which can not capsize. The man lying down is looking through the glass. |
 Launching the boat in heavy surf. |
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Popular Science Monthly McClure, Phillips and Co., New York Volume 91 Number 1, July 1917. Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293107664959  |
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