Word: diver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abramson is going to have to push, however, if he hopes to take the 200 free-style away from Bill Landgraf of Lynn Hunt. Diver Dan Mahoney will have a much rougher day than usual against Cadet Alex Alexander. And the Crimson's Henry Frey should race Paul Bucha to one of the closer races of the evening in the individual medley...
...Diver Danny Mahoney, and butterfly artists Harry Turner and Joe Stetx should also contribute significantly to Harvard's point totals in the coming weeks...
...home to his little blue house down on the Florida Keys one day, his mother asked him what that look on his face meant. "There's an eight-foot dying dolphin in the fish pen," said Sandy. Sure enough, there in the pen was Flipper, with a scuba diver's spear stuck in him. "Get me a knife and the iodine," said Mom. Before long Flipper was cavorting, grinning, dancing on his tail, laughing a porpoise laugh that sounded something like a very old automobile starting on a very cold day-ugga-ugga-ugga-ugga, chug-chug...
Expanding Air. Dr. Kruse could see at once what the trouble was. The stricken diver was suffering from air embolism,* in which compressed air in the lungs expands rapidly, forces its way into pulmonary veins leading to the heart, and travels through the arteries to the brain, where it cuts off part of the circulation and causes unconsciousness and paralysis. Dr. Kruse told the diving crew to carry the patient to an examining room. Inexperienced at the job, they let the unconscious man's head sag forward until his chin touched his chest. At the same time, they were...
...embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until patient and table returned...