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Feb. 29 Underwater TV equipment flown from the U.K. to Malta is to be used by the Royal Navy in the identification of wreckage of the Comet Aircraft on the sea bed off Elta. These pictures show the erection of the equipment in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sea Salvor at Malta. The Camera, by Pye, enclosed in a casing devised by the Royal Naval Scientific Service and made by Idea of Kingston, is capable of use at 1, 000 ft. Weighing Vewt, it is lighter than the equioment used in H.M.S. Reclaim for identifying the sunken submarine H.M.S. Affray, Mr. G.C. MacNiece of the Admiralty Research Laboratory flew to Malta to supervise the installation. He is a Belfast man, Electrician's Mate J. Revie an assistant Experimental Officer from the Admiralty Research Laboratory, now doing his National Service was also flown from the U.K. to help. He lives at Cove, Dumbartonshire. Photo shows the underwater television camera to be used on the Comet search opration being hoisted out of the hold of R.F.A. Sea Salvor
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