Word: diver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, long light of a late afternoon last week, the oil exploration boat Submarex rode gently in the Pacific swell near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
Carefully, the seamen raised the pain-racked Smith to the surface, rushed him to the recompression chamber at the U.S. Navy's Terminal Island yard. He was unconscious. Doctors put him on a bench inside the windowed, diving-bell-shaped chamber. With Smith went Diver William J. Biller, 33. long experienced in recompression emergencies, to help in the battle for life. With the chamber door slammed and bolted, Biller waited as compressed air began to shriek in. Soon the air pressure inside the tank built up to 73.4 Ibs. per sq. in.-the equivalent of the pressure...
...Crimson diver Frank Gorman showed his lack of experience badly when he sneaked into the final round of the one-meter dive with 190.75. Although Gorman scored well in the semi-final round, faulty diving in the first round and one bad dive in the final round of four optional dives kept him out of the scoring...
...John Hammond, who gave Yale's Tim Jecko unexpected trouble in the 100- yard butterfly, and diver Frank Gorman, who pulled himself up from eighth to third in the last four dives of the Easterns last Saturday night, will be along for more than the ride...
...diver who holds his breath while ascending is in a far worse plight: instead of a low-pressure pocket, a high-pressure pocket forms in his lungs, which may burst as a result. The diver is, says Dr. Lanphier, "immediately a candidate for one of the most serious of all diving accidents: air embolism." Apart from the danger of a lung bursting, the abnormal pressure can force air bubbles through the pulmonary veins and into the heart. The bubbles usually travel to the brain, causing convulsions and unconsciousness, and unless the victim is treated promptly by recompression, he is almost...