Word: diver
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Earle, a noted oceanographer, holds a world record for the greatest depth--3,280 ft.--ever reached by a solo untethered diver...
Captain Cousteau's legacy is renewed as each new diver slips below the surface and perpetuates the motto of his beloved ship, Calypso: "We must go and see for ourselves." Over dinner in Orlando, Fla., last January, he urged, "We must explore! The greatest threat to the oceans is ignorance. Permanent mistakes are being made by good people who do not know what they do not know about...
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...
Nevertheless, Harvard had a number of strong showings at the meet. Senior diver Kara Miller captured third in the three-meter event, and second in the one-meter, where she missed the top of the podium by less than one point. Both performances earned Miller the First Team All-Ivy honors...
...grunting. But women, the ones who actually go to the store to buy the beer, the pretzels and the kids' Reeboks, require something a little more human and uplifting. So NBC spent millions getting the heart-wrenching stories behind the stories, about 140 of them, on everyone from diver Mary Ellen Clark, whose cancer-stricken father made it to poolside, to the horse Nirvana II, which was an embarrassment to its Thoroughbred family--which traces its lineage to 1964 Preakness champ Northern Dancer--until giving up the track for a life of dressage and show jumping. To further nail...