| Summary: | Deep Sea Diver To Gold King: Finch Reports Extraction Of Metal In Ocean Block Of Nome. DEEP SEA DIVER TO GOLD KING Finch Reports Extraction of Metal in Ocean Block of Nome. There is no question about the mining of gold in the ocean, according to Henry Finch, deep sea diver, Seattle, who yesterday joined the staff of Captain John C. Benson as a sea diver on the Gold King ship of the Offshore Gold Dredging company of Spokane. With his father, Captain Finch mined gold at a depth of 20 feet in the ocean as a distance of a city block off Nome, Alaska, nearly 30 years ago', extracting an average of $75 daily, two hours daily, from January to June and in temperatures far below zero, he reports. To enter the ocean, they cut through the ice for six to eight feet. In the submarine diving business at Seattle, Captain Finch has assigned two of his expert divers to the Gold King which is scheduled to leave Seattle August 15. The Offshore Gold Dredging company is a subsidiary of Explorers, Inc., a Spokane enterprise formed in 1930, the greater number of whose 150 stockholders are residents of Spokane and the Inland Empire. John L. Dirks is president of Explorers, Inc., Robert T. Banks, vice president, and Rowland King, secretary-treasurer. Leon Starmont is executive vice president of Offshore Gold, Walter Clark of Kellogg, Idaho, second vice president; George L. Kimmel, treasurer, and Wellman A. Clark, secretary.
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