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Guessing that Kharos Bank was a submerged piece of high ground, Gargallo sought confirmation from local sponge divers, fishermen and sailors-all of whom casually replied that, oh, yes, there were building blocks visible on the sea bottom at Kharos Bank. Diving alone with an Aqua-Lung in the face of strong currents, Gargallo maneuvered his way along the floor of the bank, which he found strewn with bits of pottery. After ten days' search, at a depth of 40 ft., he came upon scores of rectangular white stone blocks, which he believes to be the remains of Chryses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philoctetes Was Here | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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