Word: diver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unscheduled Chores. Last March he learned that being the only proficient diver in the entire country let him in for chores the State Department had never visualized. He was called out to the Rio Quaccerique hole when a twelve-year-old boy* lost his grip on his inner tube and disappeared under the swirling currents. After an hour's search he found the body lodged between some underwater rocks...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
...Pool was the center of attention for the sons and daughters of '32 who were on exhibition for most of the afternoon, in and around the pool. A few members of the varsity swimming team were on hand to do any lifesaving that needed to be done, and diver Frank Gorman drew much applause from the assembled multitudes for several of his maneuvers off the low board...
Sophia is cast as an Aegean sponge diver. One day, as this Aphrodite rises dripping from the wave, her aphrodisian bosom is heaving with excitement. She has discovered a piece of ancient Greek sculpture-a golden boy on a bronze dolphin - which has lain for 2,000 years on the floor of the Aegean. Sophia is determined to sell her discovery to the highest bidder, and before long an American archaeologist (Alan Ladd) and an American millionaire (Clifton Webb) are hard in pursuit of whatever it is that Sophia...
...pressure rose, Biller massaged Smith's spastic muscles and chest. Outside the chamber, doctors watched carefully, consulted over the intercom with Biller, felt new hope when Smith regained consciousness for a few moments. Soon Diver Smith's wife and two sons arrived, agonizingly watched the rescue work through the chamber windows. The frantic minutes dragged by: the decompression cycle began. For eight hours and 40 minutes, Bill Biller worked desperately. Then, thrashing in gasping spasms before the anguished and horrified eyes of his wife, Eldon Smith died...