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...perhaps a virtual fence underwater? British defence firm QinetiQ has adapted its military underwater sonar system, Cerberus, into the private yacht market. It creates an underwater acoustic perimeter around a vessel that triggers an alert when broken. It "would identify an underwater swimmer, scuba diver or vehicle coming in under the water," said a company spokesman...
Harvard senior diver Samantha Papadakis qualified for the NCAA Championship with her performance at the NCAA Zone A Diving meet this weekend. Papadakis placed second in the 3-meter event and third in 1-meter competition. She trailed Kate Hynes of Drexel, who won both events, and was third to Rider’s Amanda Burke in 1-meter competition. Papadakis posted scores of 586.90 in 3-meter diving and 539.10 in 1-meter diving. She is one of five divers from Zone A to qualify for the championship meet, which will be held March 20-22 at Ohio State...
...insure the best results we will be 'chumming' the water with fish and fish parts," the Scuba Adventures website stated. "Consequently, there will be food in the water at the same time as the divers. Please be aware that these are not 'caged' dives, they are open water experiences. We will have crew members in the water at all times to insure diver safety...
DIED His deadly alleged exploits--a 1985 hijacking that led to the death of a U.S. Navy diver; attacks that killed 200 Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s; the 1992 bombing of Israel's embassy in Argentina--put him on the FBI's most-wanted list. After a car bombing in Damascus, officials announced that Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah had been killed. The incident, for which Hizballah blamed Israel (who denied involvement), was a hefty blow to the militant group--it was the first killing of a top leader since 1992. Mughniyah was believed...
...bomb spectaculars against U.S. targets in Lebanon in the mid-1980s and run the Beirut kidnapping networks that took dozens of foreigners hostage, the only crime for which he has been indicted by the U.S. is the hijacking of a TWA airliner in 1985 in which a U.S. navy diver was killed...