Word: diver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took both the 50 breaststroke, in a fine time of 32, 86, and the 200 breaststroke in 2:35.52. Freshman Mary Rentoumis narrowly defeated Yale's best swimmer Cindee Simon, in the 200 backstroke in 2:15.14. In the last dual meet of her varsity career, all-Ivy diver Pam Stone won the three meter event over teammates Jennifer Goldberg and Adriana Holy...
Training in the Alps would do the same thing, but going to Switzerland is pretty expensive, so ERIC SCHULER decided to use a high altitude stimulator to help him train for his distance events. Though Schuler looks more like an underwater diver than a runner coach BILL MCCURDY was so impressed with his progress that he ordered three more for the other distance runners. To date, McCurdy has received the bill, the literature, and the refill cartridge but no simulator... Coach FRANK HAGGERTY who has been hospitalized ever since he burned his ankle while leaving the Harvard-Brown hockey game...
...think of myself as a diving coach," Walker says, "and the sport of diving does not mean male or female." When he came to Harvard, Radcliffe had no diving program. One girl, Nancy Soto, "was a recreational diver, but she didn't have a full list of dives," Walker recalls. After a year with Walker and the men's squad, Soto was fourth in the East and qualified for the national championships...
...veteran diver, Jessop runs a salvage firm that has worked in the cold and turbulent North Sea. It took two years for Jessop to find the real position of the Edinburgh. The ensuing $4 million expedition used a vessel equipped with special computers to maintain its position over the wreckage. Divers, working in pairs, were conditioned to the extreme pressures of the Barents Sea bottom in special chambers aboard the ship, then were lowered to the hulk in a diving bell. To protect themselves from the killing cold of the water as they cut through the Edinburgh 's hull...
Nerves frayed as physical exhaustion set in. Divers worked in a murky tangle of air and communication lines, hot water continuously pumping through their wet suits for warmth. Said Supervising Diver Steve Jennings: "This is the hardest-bad currents, high seas, a rotting ship. The Doria was a weird wreck, very unforgiving." After a week of clearing debris from the first-class foyer and purser's office, the team found two safes. The divers were able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that...