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Helium for Dizziness. The main trouble with deep diving is that when the diver breathes ordinary air under too much pressure, nitrogen dissolves in his blood and tissues, causing dizziness and other kinds of trouble. Below about 240 ft., the air pumped down to the diver is replaced by a mixture of oxygen and helium. The helium penetrates the tissues, but does not have the bad effects of nitrogen. When the diver comes to the surface, however, he must be decompressed slowly lest bubbles of helium give him painful, sometimes fatal "bends...
...gives the show identity and continuity is CBS News Commentator Charles Collingwood, a suave guide who, in the course of his duties, has wrestled with a loft. alligator, struggled with an 18-ft. anaconda, plunged into the Atlantic in January, and urbanely commented on under sea matters through a diver's helmet 30 ft. below the surface of the Pacific. Collingwood once also gave his audience an authentic South American recipe, with step-by-step illustrations, on how to shrink a human head. An actual shrunken head was, of course, in camera range during the show...
John C. Connor, former All-American diver at Duke University, will coach varsity and freshman diving here next year, varsity swimming coach Harold S. Ulen announced yesterday...
Serving as his own guinea pig, Dr. Lilly stripped himself naked, put on a skin-diver's mask for breathing, and was suspended face down in a tank of warm, slowly flowing water. In this "dead man's float" position, he was almost as out of this world as if he were still unborn. He could see nothing. He could hear nothing except his own breathing and faint water sounds from the piping. Except for the face mask and the gently touching supports, he could feel nothing. The temperature of the water, 94° F., made it feel...
...best freshman prospects is diver Frank Gorman. A national YMCA champ, Brooks felt that he was "potentially the best diver Harvard has ever had." The other divers, Phil Holts and Dave Raty are "very even and improving fast...