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...research for the Admiralty was put First Lord Winston Churchill's inventor-friend, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Oxford professor, scientist, aviator, director of the R. A. F.'s Physical Laboratory in World War I. One mine brought in for "Lindy's" inspection was retrieved by a brave diver who went to the bottom alone to get it. Report was that the triggers of the new mines were found to be so sensitive they responded to sound waves as well as magnetism...
Twenty-four hours after the Squalus went down the Navy had every available expert and rescue device on the scene. Calm weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly...
...Sullivan, right winger of the Dartmouth Quad League hockey champions, and Paul Dyer, ranking Big Green Eastern Intercollegiate diver, were elected captains for their respective sports for the 1939-40 season, it was announced yesterday in a release from the DCAC...
Danny Endweiss, Yale's brilliant 130-point diver, is still out with an appendix operation; Ed Gibson, Navy leaper who has also cracked 130, is unable to enter, and Army's Crandall, another crackerjack diver, probably will not be able to compete. Thus, Rusty has the best chance, of the Harvard delegation, of bringing home the bacon...
...swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...