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...team, led by the intrepid Chatterton, began to explore the mystery U-boat. At that depth they could stay down for just minutes at a time, so they had to work methodically, room by room, dive by dive. The wreck began gobbling them up just as methodically: the first to die was an affable hobbyist named Steve Feldman, who lost consciousness and drowned. Others didn't go as peacefully, but with each death the divers only became more determined...
...slickness and charisma, Bennett, at 43, feels tired and old. He misses his wife and kids in California. ("I feel like I'm just paying storage for my family.") Pacing around his dank hotel room, a strip club and dive restaurants, he rants about the travel, the hours, the new technology. "All of a sudden, everyone's a negotiator," he says. "'The Internet said I could get it for this.' Yeah, well, right-click your mouse and see if it'll deliver the car, buddy. 'Cause it ain't gonna sell...
...voted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. Hale, a senior from Seattle, played spectacular centerfield defense the entire year, making the most difficult plays appear easy; the most strenuous, merely graceful. His two highlight-reel catches against Brown on April 25—the last of which, a dive on the warning track gravel, inspired Walsh to praise his “fearlessness”—energized the team for the stretch...
...must know when to dive into details, and when to let other people take over,” he said...
Despite winning just two individual titles at the Ivy Championships, the Crimson, down just 89.5 points headed into the penultimate event thanks to a host of top-eight showings, stood on the cusp of denying the Tigers their fifth straight title. With three divers in the three-meter dive finals—and none for Princeton—Harvard needed a clean first-through-third sweep to pull within two points and make leapfrogging the Tigers in the final relay a realistic possibility...