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...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Va. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the seventh grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school--unofficially, it was for whites only--where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
...wide range of fields. Meteorology and atmospheric science have been a major focus of these projects, including a report he helped produce called Fair Weather, describing the policy issues raised by the tensions between private weather services. He also advised the government to build a new version of the deep-sea submarine, Alvin, that discovered the wreck of the Titanic, and has helped formulate the direction of America’s future in space...
...officials were allegedly paid a "tax" on the factory's cigarettes, which were then exported in fishing vessels owned by a Taiwan crime syndicate. Indeed, the report claims that a chief attraction of running such a business in North Korea is that the "regime's willingness to allow dedicated, deep-sea smuggling vessels to use its ports provides the gangs with a secure delivery channel...
...wettest of the Lost wannabes is NBC's Surface (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), in which a new species of giant (mostly unseen) creatures appears in the world's seas. Idealistic oceanographer Laura Daughtery (Lake Bell) bumps into a mystery beast during a deep-sea bathysphere dive. A boy (Carter Jenkins) finds a translucent egg on the beach and puts it in his aquarium, not knowing it's sea-monster caviar. And there's a government plot to hide the truth, led by a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) with a Dracula accent. (Because, of course, real Americans don't do cover...