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...Crimson entries are: diver Pete Dillingham; freestylers Charlie Egan, Dave Hedberg, and Al Rapperport; breaststrokers Ken Emerson and Ralph Zani; and backstroke ace Don Mulvey...
...Ulen's Crimson figures to keep its second-place status for the third straight year. The Crimson's major hope for a first place--in fact, its only hope--is diver Pete Dillingham. In 1952, Dillingham won the one-meter dive; the year before, he took the three-meter dive...
When Ryan and Quinn are not trying to retrieve the bullion against the onslaughts of the elements, they are pursuing the lady skipper of a banana boat (Mala Powers) and a nightclub entertainer (Suzan Ball). Sample of the dampish dialogue: Diver Quinn, parrying a marriage proposal by Suzan-"Think of what our kids might be like, full of bends and nitro bubbles." City Beneath the Sea has a few eerily effective underwater scenes, filmed in Technicolor, depicting Port Royal's ghostly ruins...
Cousteau and his companions are the forerunners of a new era of undersea exploration. Using the remarkable aqualung, a light apparatus which supplies the diver with compressed air, they were able to plunge to depths of over three hundred feet, where the pressure is capable of crushing a submarine. Through Costeau's engrossing account and his starting photos, the reader can share in some measure the fascination of the curious realm of silence--a world of unknown colors, of sunken ships and playful octopi...
From one danger, however, even the aqualung could not secure the divers--the drunken elation induced by nitrogen gas under the tremendous pressures of the depths. In the intoxication of the "zone of rapture", the diver may lose control, as one of the group did, and tear the aqualung from his back as an impulsive gift to a passing fish...