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When he was a senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Nohl joined the round-the-world broadcasting cruise of Phillips ("Seth Parker") Lord with a diving bell of his own design. After graduation in 1935, he became a professional diver, worked on several successful salvaging jobs, brought up nothing but an 1851 penny from the hulk of the West M or eland which sank in Lake Michigan in 1854. He started experimenting with helium mixtures in a decompression chamber at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
Robert W. Snyder '38, has been awarded the position of Manager of Interscholastic and House Swimming for the coming season. A resident of Kirkland House, Snyder, last year acted as second diver for the Swimming Team, and is continuing his diving this year. He has also conducted the University Band for two seasons...
...Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a pearl-diver's knife and other tools, and could even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there was hell...
...Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate at the spot the monster was seen...
After talking to the discoverers, Diver Brown said, "In my opinion it's nothing more than a large fish-maybe a catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom...