Word: diver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely Crimson candidate to earn a first is diver Bill Murphy. Murphy is probably the best diver in the league, and should be able to beat Yale's Paul Priebe in both the one-meter and the three-meter...
...Indians likely to give the Crimson the most trouble are captain Terry Robinson and diver Mike Brown. Robinson, sixth in the NCAA 200-yard freestyle with a blazing 1:43.5, holds the Dartmouth records in the 200, 500, and 1000-yard freestyle events. He also swims in the butterfly. It will be interesting to see if coach Michaels pits Robinson against Crimson ace Steve Krause, who has yet to lose, in either the 500-free or the 1000-free. Harvard's Dave Powlison could also prove a problem for Robinson...
...opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing, making a rapid motion," says Captain George Bond, Sealab's chief medical officer. "Any time you see rapid motion in a diver, you know he's in trouble." Cannon died before he could be brought to the surface...
Series of Leaks. Late in the week a Navy investigation revealed that "one of the diving rigs in use by Sealab divers was equipped with an empty Bar-alyme canister." Without the Baralyme, which absorbs carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver, the gas builds up in the system and can eventually cause suffocation. "This could explain the tragic event," said a Navy spokesman, and indeed, an autopsy revealed "a greatly excessive" amount of carbon dioxide in Cannon's blood. Navy officials ordered a halt to all diving. Sealab 3, still leaking helium, was brought to the surface and lifted...