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Several weeks ago August Piccard's Bathyscaphe again made headlines when it dropped its magnetically-held ballast eggs some two land one half miles beneath the Atlantic's waves and bobbed up for air, thus completing the deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most...
Captain Houot is confident that the FNRS 3 could have dived much deeper; he would like to take her into the deepest places in the world's oceans, such as the 34,000-ft. trench between New Zealand and the Tonga Islands. The FNRS 3 is theoretically able to stand the pressure of 52,000 ft. of sea water, but for the sake of prudence, a new and stronger bathyscaphe would be required for this ultimate dive...
...only other one-two finish for the Yardlings came in the breast-stroke, swept by Falk and Bob Jaffe. Art Martin in the low-board dive was the third and last freshman to win his event...
...varsity at Hanover All-American Don Mulvey set a new Dartmouth pool record of 2:16.6 for the 200-yard backstroke. Pete Smalls edged Tuck Creamer by 0.2 points for second place in the one-meter dive, and Captain Charley Egan swam the breaststroke for the first time this season, placing second to teammate Ralph Zani...
...with a bang. His radio told of "heavy babies in [sector] Anton-Quelle-eight," and Knoke saw some 300 Liberators, "like a great bunch of grapes, shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...