Word: diver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first report focuses on the seas, and for the lead profile TIME essayist Roger Rosenblatt explored the California coast with Sylvia Earle, a noted deep-sea diver and ocean advocate. Says he: "In a few days, she taught me the wonder of her world. I think she loves her subject too much to keep it to herself." Other stories came from a global team of TIME correspondents and contributors: Lisa Beyer, Jack Epstein, Christopher Hallowell, Thomas Sancton and John Skow. Beyer discovered that one of Jordan's leading conservationists is a 28-year-old cousin of King Hussein...
...grandfather had been a diver in bridge construction and told stories that hypnotized young Rene. He would have his own story now. Tethered to his 88-ft. boat and wearing 100 lbs. of equipment, he dropped slowly into the grave: 50 ft., 100, 150. At 180 ft., he was on the ocean floor with about 25 ft. of visibility, standing in the horror...
...takes hours and assistance from the entire crew, to get two divers down for about 35 minutes and back up. The divers are connected to the boat with hoses, and video cameras attached to their helmets relay what they see. When a diver finds something, it is too dangerous to kneel and retrieve it because the jet is now a field of razor blades. One diver holds the other by the back of his suit and eases him down...
Poirier, on one of his dives, picked up a signal on sonar just before having to surface. The next diver, Kent Gulliford, swept away some debris and found the cockpit voice recorder. The team was ecstatic, but soon learned that the black box, like the first one found, had not recorded the last six minutes of flight...
...Another diver enters the pub with a glazed smile that might be exhaustion or maybe the relief of seeing someone else who knows what's down there. "This is my best friend," says Poirier, hugging Richard Lafreniere, 35. Ordinarily they train to repair battle-damaged ships and clear mines. There is no training for what they're doing...