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Almost predictably, the Games of the XXI Olympiad ended as they began -with sermons, squabbles and a threat to withdraw. Charging Canada with "planned provocation," Soviet officials said they might boycott the weekend events if a 17-year-old Russian diver who defected on Thursday was not returned. Meanwhile America's Dwight Stones, the world-record-holding high jumper known as "the Mouth with Legs," was quoted as saying that French Canadians were "rude, discourteous and ignorant." Before slipping to third place in the Montreal rain, Stones, who made public apology by donning an I LOVE FRENCH CANADIANS...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
When at age 17 he ventured west from Mount Vernon, N.Y., to seek his fortune, R. Lad Handelman learned quickly that there was more money in diving than in tending a diver's airline, as he had been doing. Says he: "I figured I was on the wrong end of the hose." He became a diver and spent a decade combing the seabed off California for abalone. Today, at 39, Handelman is again topside: this time as president of Oceaneering International, Inc., a Houston-based company that in 6½ years has become the largest publicly owned firm...
...company has also developed techniques to decrease costly "bounce" dives-twelve hours of on-deck decompression for every half-hour on the ocean floor. Descending in a pressurized diving bell, an Oceaneering diver can work underwater shifts of four hours or more with only four days off out of every 15 for decompression. Another innovation: an experimental suit that encases a diver in normal atmospheric pressure at great depths, thus eliminating the need for decompression altogether...
...suits, pumps, lighting gear and other support equipment needed to put one diver on the bottom today can cost more than $500,000-one factor that gives a firm of Oceaneering's size a competitive edge. Another expensive item is the diver himself. Oceaneering trains its own divers at a school in Wilmington, Calif. Students, most in their early twenties, learn the physics and physiology of diving, later advance to underwater welding, rigging, salvage, photography, even television. The divers are paid handsomely: salaries range mostly from $17,000 to $35,000 a year, and a few divers in Alaska...