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While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...
...pairing of a diver and a swimmer as co-captains could have proved divisive for the 1985-'86 Harvard women's swimming team...
Byrd spent much of her four-year career battling injuries, but at the end of this season the Miami, Fla., native qualified for the NCAA diving team. She currently holds the Harvard record for the three-meter dive and--as a sophomore--was named outstanding diver of the Eastern Championships...
Teammate Wilson gives Byrd large credit for the team's success: "Not only is she an outstanding diver," Wilson says, "but she creates a unified atmosphere with her winning attitude...
...weeks ago, Greene earned the Outstanding Diver of the Meet award for her first-place 3-meter finish in the Eastern Championships, also held at Penn State...