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| Recovered Ring Belonging To Deceased WWII Pilot. |
The remains of 21-year-old WWII aviator was recovered from sunken bomber but that isn't all.
The Friday announcement came a year and a half after the Navy conducted a dramatic, high-tech descent to the Pacific Ocean crash site in a diving bell, recovering human remains, several dog tags and Kelly’s Army Air Forces ring....
Heaven Can Wait was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft gunners off the coast of the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, taking Kelly and 10 others to their deaths. Kelly was 21...
The diving apparatus, somewhat like a space station, included a pressurized habitat, where the divers lived aboard the ship, and a pressurized diving bell, which they used to reach the bottom.
The system allowed them to work in the pressure of deep water for long periods without having to decompress after each dive, the Navy said. They needed to decompress only at the end of the project.
Once on the bottom, the divers exited the diving bell and gathered material from the crash site into big baskets that were hauled up to the ship to be sifted for artifacts...
Here is the link for more about that.
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Yesterday I talked some about metal detectors and rod assemblies. The thought that started me on the topic was the evolution of metal detectors. Some things haven't changed much, including especially what many would consider the least important part - the rod assembly.
Perhaps some detectorists have paid more attention to the rod assembly than I have. The proper adjustment will help you get a better swing and help your level of comfort and endurance. That is a topic worth getting into, but I won't today.
The common configuration with the S-shape upper rod that has an armrest could be the best possible configuration, but I don't know about that. Being someone who believes it is always possible to do things better, I doubt it is the best possible design - at least not in all ways. Yesterday I talked about using longer and shorter rods for specific situations.
A few metal detectors are very compact when folded up or collapsed for transport. That is handy, but evidently isn't seen as important enough to become predominant. Of course, cost and prices is always a factor, but so is the willingness to accept things that are popular and being widely used.
The one thing I really don't like about most rod assemblies is the little spring clips that are used to adjust the pole length. I've often replaced them with bolts and nuts - non-metallic in some cases.
Continuing development in electronics such as wireless technologies will eventually change rod designs. The rod will not need to hold either wires or a control box unless you want some type of visual readout in addition to your audio signals.
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