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...Derelict. Starting out, the salvagers swung by ropes from the high-riding forward deckhouse to the after superstructure, examined the derelict, decided to pump sea water from the ship's big tanks and replace it with enough compressed air to float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir...
...nine weeks they worked, drilling bolt holes in the patch, lowering it with winches. The divers, fighting the heavy ebb and flow of the sea, fastened the patch with bolts, some of them a foot long. Once a shark flashed toward Diver Maurice Simmons. "I kept yanking on the diving line and saying to myself, 'Oh, my God, won't they ever pull me up?' Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down...
...year-old Yamanaka comes by his swimming talent naturally: his mother was a professional diver for shellfish. Yamanaka, raised in Amamachi, on the Sea of Japan, was a swimmer at four. But as a boy, Yamanaka shuddered at the thought of racing: "It seemed too tiring at the time." Then one day he tagged along to watch his high school team in a national meet, sat fuming as the contestants splashed haplessly up and down the pool. Finally, Yamanaka stalked down out of the stands, entered the 100 meters-and won. "After watching the slow swimming," says he, "I felt...
...dive, rising Crimson sophomore Eric Johnson, whose excellent show in the Yale meet provided the only varsity first place, will go against a host of equal calibre divers from the eight other schools. Johnson, the varsity's second diver at the season's outset, has steadily improved to a peak in practice this week...
Commandant Jacques Y. Cousteau, inventor of the aqualung and famed deep sea diver, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Potentials of Undersea Exploration" tonight at 8 p.m. in Burr Lecture Hall B. Cousteau, author of "The Silent World," is Director of the Oceanographic Institute in Monaco. He also invented a two-man submarine which can descend over half a mile...