Word: diver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rapture of the Depths. Cousteau perfected his seagoing lung in 1945. The key to its operation is an automatic compensating valve that adjusts the air supply to the diver's demand and the water pressure. The outfit weighs about 45 lbs. above water; submerged, the man and the machine when properly ballasted weigh hardly a pound...
...diver, merely by filling or emptying his lungs, can change his waterborne weight by as much as 12 lbs. Let a diver deflate his lungs and he sinks like a stone; inflate them, he pops up like a cork; intermediate effects are easily learned. But descent below 300 ft. becomes increasingly dangerous. One reason for this is something Author Cousteau calls, from experience, the "rapture of the great depths...
...their girls, a diver,was particularly nice. She could speak a little English and did a lot of interpreting for the others. This same girl, according to Hawkins broke out of the Russian camp one night and went out with an Australian diver. They went to a club and in a movie in downtown Helsinki, all against Soviet training rules...
...were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his side showed wide and a light lavender. His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it. smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race...
...ends his war in a moral frazzle. The skipper's problem, which is meant to symbolize the problem of the whole war generation, is to escape "the terrible pull of the dead." The pull drags the captain down to the ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform buttons, and restores him to life-in this case, another tugboat...