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...season point total in the Alumni meet. He probably won't be touched in competition this year; that is, if the judges can figure out some of the fancy curleycues he's been doing off the high board. Lothrop Forbush will be right behind him, and George Dana, sophomore diver, is expected to turn out to be a star. Bob Snyder looked pretty well in the Alumni meet...
...rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib. An underdress of heavy fleece wool and waterproof canvas is worn inside, the rubber canvas trousers, with pockets, outside. The helmet is cylindrical, has a glass window ⅜ in. thick all the way around, so that the diver has as wide an angle of vision as he can turn his head...
There is no air supply coming down through a hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
...painful and sometimes fatal diver's affliction called "the bends" is caused by bubbles of nitrogen formed in the blood during a too quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
...Nohl & Craig hope to put it is the salvaging of valuable articles from the Lusitania. Two years ago, the Orphir, a privately financed salvage ship, located a large hulk off tne Irish coast by means of an echo-sounder, and this was assumed to be the Lusitania when a diver found two-inch rivets, such as used in constructing the Lusitania. Bad weather and other difficulties drove the searchers off before there was any opportunity to look for treasure. Nohl and Craig hope that their efficient suit with complete freedom of movement will encourage the Orphir's sponsors...