Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time the first diver went down on Sunday, December 18, and heard tappings from the torpedo room, why did he not connect up the air-hose then...
...Helium mixed with oxygen as a source of air supply for divers is impractical. The means of utilizing this is still far from a state of perfection, and besides it would cost about five hundred dollars for each diver that went down...
...where a "slick" of oil had marked the sinking ship's disappearance. Depth rescuers-including crews and equipment which finally raised the famed S-51 off Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport, and Brooklyn Navy Yards. A diver groped his way down to the hulk and tapped with his hammer. Answering taps came from the torpedo room in the submarine's bow. Six men were still alive there. Their air was getting bad. Please hurry! Powerful compressors on tenders at the surface started pumping air into...
Arthur Potter is a wader, diver, gambler. He earns his living wading and diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...
...Manhattan last week from a four-month fishing and observing expedition on the coral reefs of Haiti. In the scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate with a lead pencil...