Word: aqua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FELLOWS, YOU'VE MADE IT APPEAR THAT I SIGNED AND CONTRIBUTED TO AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE NEW YORK "TIMES" ON BEHALF OF FIDEL CASTRO. YOU KNOW I DID NEITHER. I NEVER SIGN ANYTHING BUT DEPOSIT SLIPS, AND AS FOR JOINING A GROUP-I EVEN RESIGNED FROM THE AQUA VELVA AFTER-SHAVE CLUB BECAUSE OF THE DISCIPLINE...
Bends & Bubbles. For the untrained or careless diver, Aqua-Lunging presents a host of dangers: swimming too long in cold water can subtly bleed off his body heat until he finds himself suddenly exhausted ; holding his breath during the last 30 ft. of ascent can rupture his lungs as they expand under the rapidly decreasing pressure; successive deep descents can cripple him with the old diver's disease of the bends unless he decompresses the nitrogen bubbles in his blood by lingering at graduated stages...
...calmly do all the right things in a jam. They need not be especially powerful-in the weightless, silent world, a twitch of a flipper can provide all the power needed. Cousteau is convinced that nearly anyone with adequate training and common sense can learn to dive with an Aqua-Lung. Says he: "Free diving is safer than motorcycling...
...into Fish. In fact. Cousteau looks forward to the day when free diving will be so commonplace that farmers in Aqua-Lungs will harvest crops of fish and plants cultivated in special concrete shelters. Peering far into the future. Cousteau predicts that surgery will give man gills, enable him to "breathe" water, set him free as a fish for years beneath the sea. A second operation could easily return him to life in the air. "Everything that has been done on the surface will sooner or later be done under water," says Cousteau. "It will be the conquest...
...conflicting claims, skindivers believe that the deepest descent with held breath was made by a Greek sponge diver named Stotti Georghios, who in 1913 swam down 200 ft. to put a line on the lost anchor of an Italian battleship. Dumas' dive to 307 ft. with an Aqua-Lung is regarded as the record fro free diving...