Word: diver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer enough, and such sports as octopus wrestling are coming increasingly into vogue, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where the critters grow up to 90 Ibs. and can be exceedingly tough customers. Although there are several accepted techniques for octopus wrestling, the really sporty way requires that the human diver go without artificial breathing apparatus...
...deep" and the decompression "bends," a Swedish physician has added another. It is of such deceptive simplicity that it has been generally overlooked. Pressure changes in the middle ear, reports Aviation Physiologist Claes E. G. Lundgren in the British Medical Journal, may cause dizziness so severe that the afflicted diver literally does not know which way is up and may swim to the bottom when he wants to head for the surface...
...Blond, boyishly engaging Gary woos with his high-register, artfully shaded renderings of Danny Boy and Unchained Melody. His ability to hold a note for a seeming eternity, he says, is a skill that comes from his many hours spent underwater working as a professional scuba diver. In that capacity, he claims the world's underwater endurance record in both salt (41 hr. 1 min.) and fresh (78 hr. 45 min.) water...
Maxim Gorky's life was the irresistible legend: unschooled Volga boatman turned great writer, angry appellant for Red Revolution, friend of Tolstoy and Lenin, humanist who loathed repression, diver to The Lower Depths and the grim, gritty world of his Childhood. In fact, judging from this careful exhumation of the man by Dan Levin, sometime novelist and lifelong Gorkyite, Gorky was at once a less noble and more tragic figure than his legend suggests...
Danny Mahoney, Eastern diving chanson and the best Crimson diver since sampan Frank Gorman in 1960, finally came an All-American at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in lows last week...