Statue plan for Dorset’s ‘Schindler’
LEADER Chadwick and kids
AN unsung hero who helped save hundreds of children destined for Nazi concentration camps is to be honoured with a statue in his home town.
Trevor Chadwick, called the “Purbeck Schindler”, aided Sir Nicholas Winton in organising the Kindertransport to rescue 669 Jewish kids from Czechoslovakia in 1938-9 before the Second World War.
The Latin teacher forged documents to hoodwink Nazi officers in Prague, risking his life, but his actions were only revealed half a century later.
Mr Chadwick died in 1979, aged 72, and a group is trying to raise £80,000 for a bronze statue of him in Swanage, Dorset.
Trevor’s cousin Annie Bridger said: “He did it totally selflessly.”
Depth in miles of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean
Dr Sullivan after her dive
THE first American woman to walk in space has become the first woman to dive to the deepest known spot on Earth.
Kathy Sullivan, 68, who reached a depth of 35,810ft, known as Challenger Deep, is the eighth person to complete the feat.
The first two were Don Walsh and Jacques Picard in 1960, and later film director James Cameron in 2012.
She was joined in the western Pacific Ocean by Victor Vescovo, an explorer funding the mission.
They spent about 1hr 30min 6.78 miles down in the Mariana Trench, 200 miles southwest of Guam.
After taking pictures from the deep-sea research submersible, named the Limiting Factor, it took them four hours to resurface.
The sub is the first to go repeatedly to the deepest point in the ocean.
Only specialised microorganisms can survive the pressure, darkness and almost freezing temperatures.
Once back on board their support vessel, DSSV Pressure Drop, the pair called a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station, around 254 miles above the Earth.
“As we glided along the ocean floor, it reminded me of video clips from astronauts flying over the lunar surface. ‘Moonscape’ was the word that kept coming back to me – like I was seeing the moon right here on our own planet,” she said.
“As a hybrid oceanographer and astronaut, this was an extraordinary day, a once-ina-lifetime day, seeing the moonscape of the Challenger Deep and then comparing notes with my colleagues on the ISS about our remarkable reusable innerspace outer-spacecraft.”
The ISS orbits in zero pressure while Limiting Factor tackles the equivalent of 2,200 tons of pressure.
In 1978, Dr Sullivan joined NASA as part of the first group of astronauts to include women. On October 11, 1984, she became the first US woman to walk in space.
She orbited the Earth 356 times, travelling 8.6 million miles.