Word: diversant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finned and face-masked, they hardly look like prospectors. Yet hundreds of scuba divers on Florida beaches these days are out for treasure, not pleasure. Some have already struck it rich. In the past six weeks alone, more than $1,000,000 in lost gold and silver has been fished...
In fact, the chances of finding gold are far better for Gulf Stream divers than they were for Yukon diggers. Of an estimated $8 billion in gold extracted from the New World by the Spanish, according to one expert, at least 5% -$400 million worth-was lost in shipwrecks on...
Plainly, the state's offhand attitude invites the kind of freebooting enterprise for which Board Chairman Kidd's namesake was notorious. Salvage operators have already reported the appearance of well-equipped-and armed -claim jumpers, as well as thousands of lone-wolf divers who spend their weekends swarming...
Mahoney should beat out Yale's Pete Desjardins and Princeton's Scott Andrews, two of his conquerors in the Easterns, but how he will fare against the top boardmen from the rest of the country is hard to predict, since divers have no universal measuring rod like the swimmers' times...
The style of the divers episodes is semi-realistic. On the whole, props are merely implied. Only a few crucial ones, which stand out in Quentin's memory with special vividness, are actually visible--a toy boat, a bed sheet and Maggie's pill bottle, for instance.