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...final event of the evening, the 200m freestyle relay, junior diver Kara Miller, who took first place in the one-meter event and second in the three-meter made her swimming debut, racing in the final leg of the relay. The team of Miller, Deveney, Koerckel and sophomore Stephanie Lawrence took second in the event...
...meter dive, three-meter dive, and the 10-meter dive are each evaluated by judges for artistic merit and degree of difficulty. After the highest and lowest marks are thrown out (no need to worry about that nasty East German judge), a composite score is calculated for each diver based on the above criteria and the competitor with the highest total wins the event, thereby earning points for his or her team...
Senior swimmer Caroline Miller won three events and junior diver Kara Miller captured two to lead the Crimson in its second victory of the weekend...
...women should not be too quick to abandon Faulkner because she is not the perfect poster-cadet, or because misogyny is ebbing, or because the work of integrating all-male institutions is over. At the Air Force Academy, cadet Elizabeth Saum, a champion diver and straight-A student, was forced to take medical leave after playing the POW in a survival-training course. Saum says she was confined with a hood over her head and no food or sleep for two days, splattered with urine, and climbed on by a male cadet who forced her knees apart and simulated raping...
Even the most experienced scuba divers rarely venture below 150 ft., however, owing to increasingly crushing pressure and the laborious decompression process required to purge the blood of nitrogen (which can form bubbles as a diver returns to the surface and cause the excruciating and sometimes fatal condition known as the bends). And pressurized diving suits make it possible for humans to descend only to 1,440 ft.--far short of the deepest reaches of the oceans...