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Some Thrilling Experiences of John
Olsen During His Forty Years,
Work Along the Atlantic Cosst .
(Bostcn Globe).
Cf the best known, submarine cli
vers cf not only New EnrLand but of
the United States? is Captain John
Olsen, of Boston. A descendant of the
hardy Nora (oienL he comes qui.te -naturally
by h'-s love for ocean. and
I und-.ir which he has lived the most
of his days.
j Nearly forty years, in storm and
j sunshine, in winter and summer, Cap
J ta:,n Olsen has been raising wrecked
i ships, -b ringing valuable cargo
es from vessels lest, recoverirg bo
dies of drowned people and lost trea
sure, blasting sunking rocks and ledg
that were a menace to nav:getion,
laying cr repairing large water mai.n
in fact performing all maner of sub
marine woirk.
Captain Oslen who is a native of
Norway, ifcook t:o the sea whiHe a boy
following the life of a sailor boy for
'many years, until 1 he finaly, just a:
he had reached manhood, arrived
at Philadeipihia as cne of the crew of
a sq.uare-rigger.He left the sh-p tliere
and after putting in a couple of
years on coasting schooners he came
to Boston in 1872 and settled hianself
to become a diver.
Captain Olsea's first dive v.ias
made in the Penobscot River at
Bangor Maine, on a blasting job.
I stayed down an hour cr two at
that first try of mine, but it seemed
like years to me." he says in tell
:.ng of the sensation he experienced
on, that occasion. And I was just a
telling you.
When I started down and saw the
great Avail of water closeing over
me I thought that it was going to
overwhelm and drewm me. I forgot
you know that I was looking at it
through tihe thick glass of tha helmet
that was keeping me safe.
I felt that I was being smothered
and wanted to come right up again
before I got to the bottom. But as
I didn't care to be laughed at and
called a coward by the mates I screwr
ed up my courage and stayed down.
The second day I remained down
longer, and by the end of the week
I was a Hi right and a full-fledged dive
with all the fear knocked out of me."
It was 34 years ago that Captain
Olsen was engaged to riase the cargo
piece of work as a diver, when the
Reading Coal Company's steamer? Leo
pard was wrecked on a ledge off Tha
er's -Island while coming up Boston
Harbor with a large cargo of coal. Hf
worked a number of days on the sun
en steamer, finaly succeeding in rais
ing her and sending the ship to
Boston.
Soon, after that a schooner loaded
with water piipe to be laid in Newton
was wrecked during a bad st'erm in
Highland light ,off Cape Cod. Captain
Olsen was engaged to ra:s the cargo
and the vessel and succeeded in
accomplishing both.
More than quarter of century ago,
when the steamcer City of Coluhibus
foundered off Gay Head in a terrible
storm, resulting in the loss of about
200 lives, Captain Olsen was the first
to go down to the lost steamer. He
was negaged to make thorough exam
ination of the wrecked ship, and to
recover what bodies he could. Wiith
but a few hours respite he was under
wiater at that time for 24 hours work
ing on the wreck, not getting a
wink of sleep.
Another notable diving job p erf err
by Captain Olsen was in Boston Hart
or over 14 years ago. The steamer
"Venetian, of London while heading
her bertih at the Hosaic docks in
Charlestown, with a vory valuable
cargo aboard, was sunk off Castle Is
land, and Captain Olsen after a great
deal of hard work, succeeded c,r.ib- rin
ing up the cargo and raising the stea
mer. Although he has done considerable
submarine work of an important na
ture in and about Boston Harbor,
Captain Olsen' s diving operations
have by no means been confined to
local .waters. :
He has worked beneath tile sea a
long the whole stretch of Atlantic
coast from Newfoundland to the Flor
ida keys and brought up many valu
able cargoes, as well as sunken ves
sels, from the bed of the ocean at
different! points alc-rg the coast.
Nearly four years ago he was se
lected by "the National .Government
as an inspector to oversee the larving
of a large, main trunk sewer for the
city cf Washington that was laid for
a considerable distance on the bed
of the Potomac River. On that work
he supervised the operations of 3
different gangs of divers that were e:
ployed on it for a period of seven
months.
One time, several years ago,
while working on a vessel; that was
wrecked off th e South Carolina
coast, Captain Olsen had a rather
thrilling adventure with a shark of
the man. eating-kind. He was down
in about 25 feet of pretty waiter and
had just emerged from the hold of
the vessel, after sending up some
of the cargo, when the shark hove
in sight not a great distance from
him.
Fortunately tjhe cabin, was close by
ansd Captain Olsen sought safety
within by hiding himself there from
the shark, which swam leisurely to
and fro before the entrance to the
cabin for some time, as if guard
ing against the escape of the diver.
For two hours the Captain was a
prisoner, held in the cabin by the j
shark, before he managed tfo get out. j
Then he lost no time in giving the !
signal to those above when he was
hauled up. That was the only time
in his diving career, he says, that
he was bothered byi a shark.
While Oaptain Olsen has had ma-
and faced them more than his fa:r
share of perias the closest that he
has ever come to death under .water
was right in Boston Harbor in the
fall of 1909 when working on the
steamer Birmingham, that had sunk
between Castle Island and Buoy No.
9.
The Birmingham was being broken
up for what junk could be recovered
from her, and Captaiin Olsen. was at
tending to the submarine end of the
work, sending up what parts of the
ship could be saved.
The veteran diver was fastening
a cable about a heavy steel plate
still clinging to the side of the
wreck so that it could be hoisted to
the surface, when a big ocean liner,
outward bound, passed close above
the spot where he was at work about
50 feet below. The swiftly revolving
propellers of steamer churning the
waves set the water in such actiiye
motion that it caused a sudden vio
lent !lurcb:T..g of that portion of the
wreck to which the steel plate was
clanging. The cable slipped from its
place around the plate and the sharp
hook on the end c? it in flying up
caine within less than an inch cf
catching the rubber hose through i
wnicn the Lte-susminrng supply ot
air was being sent down, to diver
and tearing it away freni its connec
tion with the protecting helmet tibat
covered the head. Had the air hese
been torn away Captain Olsen in all
probability would have met death by
drowning before he could have been
hauled up through the 50 feet cf wa
ter tlo the surface.
Instmcitvely he threw up his left
arm 1c protect himself from the fly
ing hook of the cable, but its sharp
point caught his thumb and ripped
it wide, cpen the whole length of the
soft, inner side, causing an extreme
ly painful injury, whioh stayed wi::l:
ii;n for some time afte'
But he 'managed after a time to
send up that plate, and then he had
himself hauled up as it was impos
sible for him to u-se the injured hand
any longer.
Captain Olsen has frequently gene
down cn diving trips during the cold
est kind cf weatiiier in the depth of
winter. One of these memorable
occasions was at the ill-fated steam
er Portland which sailed from Bos
ton and disappeared iru that awfu
storm of November, 1S&S, never more
to be seen or heard of. being swallow
ed up by the sea . wLtji all ou board
At that time Captain Olsen put
in 15 days in bititer cold weather
searching the ocean's bed off the tip
of Cape Cod for some trace of the
lost steamer, but he was unable to
find amrvfhi.ne- !
A large part fo Captain Olsen's op
erations, particularly in wrecking
operations, has been done in water
so black at the bottom of the sea
that it was impossible for him to
see anything, so his hnads have had
to do the work of his eyes, calling
into play the sense of touch rather
than that of sight. Like a blind
man, he has had to feel for every
thing, measuring the size of objects
with his outstretched hands.
While it is pretty difficult work,
yet he feels perfectly at home, he
says. as no uncanny feelings are feltl.
utter darkness aU the bottom of the
sea, as no. uncanny sensations are f el
he says once you get usedto them,
and all divers have to accustom them
selves to tfiiat sort of thins-
The greatest depth of water in
which Captain Olsen has worked, was
six fathcjns, or 120 feet, and tthat, he !
says is about the limit of depth at
which a diver can work, and even
then the pressure of the imghty body
of water above and about him is so
strenuous and tremendous that a di
ver cannot stay down a depth of six
fathoms for any length of time, with
out coming to the surface. Frelquen,
ly, however, Captain Olsen has work
ed for seven hours under 25 or 30 cr
more feet of water without being
hauled up.
Captain Olsen has a comfortable
home at 14 Fairmount avenue, West
Scifcerville, where he lives with his
wife and three children, but he has
to keep himself in readiness for a
calif at any hour to go down into the
sea, day or night, winter or summer.
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