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...Shark Fishing The Atlantic coast off Swakopmund is renowned for its exceptional fishing, with shark providing the greatest challenge. Aquanaut Tours, aquanauttours.com, can organize a day's fishing at sea or from the shore. Don't worry, the sharks are returned to the water after being caught...
Scott Carpenter, 58, moved on from the Mercury program to become an "aquanaut" in the Navy's Sealab program. Since then he has pursued various oceanographic ventures but admits to having "difficulty finding a good, solid third career." Today he lives in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles and works part-time giving speeches and consulting. He and his second wife, Maria Roach, 36, have two young sons, and Carpenter describes himself as mainly a "father-in-residence...
...than most of their schoolmates. On the average, they stayed home sick two weeks every year. By comparison, other healthy adults report that they were sick only one week each year while they were growing up. Moreover, Helmreich reports, "We found a definite correlation between how many days an aquanaut was sick as a child and how well he performed in Tektite. The more he stayed home sick as a child, the better he tended to perform as an aquanaut...
...despite competition from her more glittering sisters who eat, tell time and talk on the telephone. G.I. Joe, a boys' doll that used to be outfitted in military togs, has been redecorated in deference to antiwar sentiment. He now often appears in the garb of an astronaut or aquanaut...
Near San Clemente Island off the California coast, the Navy's trouble-plagued "yellow submarine," Sealab 3, was lowered 610 ft. to the floor of the continental shelf. Then instruments indicated a helium leak in the still-unoccupied deep-sea habitat, and Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon, 33, and two companions were sent below to make repairs. They descended to the 610-ft. level in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule (PTC) and were opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing...