Word: diver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John C. Connor, former All-American diver at Duke University, will coach varsity and freshman diving here next year, varsity swimming coach Harold S. Ulen announced yesterday...
Serving as his own guinea pig, Dr. Lilly stripped himself naked, put on a skin-diver's mask for breathing, and was suspended face down in a tank of warm, slowly flowing water. In this "dead man's float" position, he was almost as out of this world as if he were still unborn. He could see nothing. He could hear nothing except his own breathing and faint water sounds from the piping. Except for the face mask and the gently touching supports, he could feel nothing. The temperature of the water, 94° F., made it feel...
...best freshman prospects is diver Frank Gorman. A national YMCA champ, Brooks felt that he was "potentially the best diver Harvard has ever had." The other divers, Phil Holts and Dave Raty are "very even and improving fast...
...learned the happy news, even brother Kell had to admit that his prospective brother-in-law was no oddball. "I don't think we can make a sculler out of him," he said. "He's not tall enough. But I hear he's a terrific skin-diver...
When a human diver descends to great depths, the nitrogen in his lungs tends to dissolve in his blood. When he comes to the surface, it forms bubbles that clog the circulation. This might not happen to whales if their lungs were full of oily foam. Oil has an affinity for nitrogen; it can absorb six times as much as blood can. Fraser & Purves think that when a whale dives, the nitrogen in the air of its lungs is absorbed by oil droplets before it gets into the blood. So the whale makes a deep dive and surfaces without suffering...