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a Friday August 21 1987 The Miami Herald 3A Gem-filled bag taken off Titanic Power outages are soaring along with the mercury search and Exploitation of the Sea owner of the Nautile and support vessel Nadir has said any artifacts would be displayed during a world tour No explanation has been given on how investors in the expedition will recoup the $25 million cost of the adventure The investors are grouped as the British-registered Ocean Research and Exploration Ltd Plans were announced last week by the Hollywood Calif-based Westgate Film Group to open the safe on a live broadcast from Monaco on Oct 28 The Titanic advertised as un-sinkable hit an iceberg and went down on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to New York This expedition has been controversial as Titanic survivors and relatives of the 1513 people who drowned argued that the site should be left inviolate as a memorial A number of museums including the Smithsonian Institution in the United States and the National Maritime Museum in England have said they would not display the objects nor accept them in their collections A web of legal questions also surrounds ownership of the objects even though the wreck lies in international waters 320 miles southwest of Newfoundland At least one Titanic survivor who lost her coral and ruby necklace 400 gold sovereigns emeralds and diamonds in the disaster said recently that she would claim any of her property brought to the surface TITANIC from I A aboard the high-tech minisub Nau-tilc retrieved a small safe believed to have been the assistant strongbox the statement said The leather satchel found during a routine survey of the stern section of the debris field was opened and examined briefly revealing the valuables and currency Chappaz repeated the claim that none of the artifacts would be sold to private individuals He did not say if the expedition would try to sell the objects to institutions like museums A full account of the contents was to be made after the object was transferred to a preservation laboratory in Paris run by the national utility Electricite de France Chappaz said The French Institute for Re knock out a transformer Also storms knock trees onto power lines also producing blackouts Another factor unrelated to nature is South swiftly increasing population customer count is growing more than 4 percent annually The added population often renders existing transformers insufficient for their service area particularly during the peak summer season While power outages are usually short-lived that always the case Particularly if the outage is due to storm-related damage it may be the better part of a day before the air conditioning gets whirring again BROWNOUT from I A there and fix the transformer usually by putting in a new fuse a fairly quick thing" said Pounds who denied that the company has experienced an unusually large number of outages this summer "But summer is when most likely to occur" he said Pounds said high temperatures the only reason why summer is the leading blackout season is also a busy time because of the weather patterns" he said Summer thunderstorms produce lightning which can Storm No 2 is expected to intensify Bret 1400 miles from Caribbean Tropical Storm Bret the second of the 1987 hurricane season plodded Thursday over the Atlantic Ocean still closer to its African origin than to the Western Hemisphere A gradual strengthening of the storm is expected today by forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables At 10:30 pm Thursday Bret was centered near latitude 161 north and longitude 403 west or about 1150 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands It was moving west at 17 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph Bret a tropical depression on Tuesday developed enough strength to become a storm Wednesday Its highest steady wind speed near the center was 50 mph Thursday Gale winds 39 mph reached 115 miles to the northeast and northwest and 58 miles to the 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