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...used to watch divers in high school," she said, "and I would think about how I'd really like to do that, but no one ever encouraged me." Sue asked diving Coach John Walker at the start of the season about becoming a diver. But he told her then that he already had experienced divers and that she would have trouble making the team; so Sue just worked on her butterfly...
However, far greater than any of this is the courage involved in her whole developmental process. Her team was without a diver, a situation which would have crippled them for the season. But Sue stepped in, learned the dives, and started scoring points and beating more experienced opponents. Her performance has been no less than incredible...
...Plimptons so desire, they can guest-coach the Houston Rockets pro basketball team for $2,000 per couple per day. For the more active twosome, Sakowitz will serve up a weekend of treasure hunting for Spanish gold at the bottom of Scotland's Tobermory Bay, complete with licensed diver, plus bed and board at the Duke of Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. Sakowitz, while reporting more "interest" than sales...
...useful distinction between "expertise" and "expertness." In the spirit of 19th century British intellectual noblesse oblige, he simply and clearly explains marine navigation. As skipper he is heavy on object lessons, especially in matters of boat safety. Two people lost their lives while sailing Cyrano under charter: a scuba diver died in the Caribbean, and an ad executive fell overboard and drowned in the Hudson River while the boat was being used for a corporate cocktail party. The most serious mishap during Cyrano's trip to Spain was a gash suffered by one of the crew when a spinning...
...four years at Harvard, Walker has developed one of the top diving teams in the East. Last year, Dave English became the first Harvard diver to win an Eastern Seaboard championship in ten years...