Word: diversant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Killing Machine. "This voyage is the culmination of my life's work," proclaimed the 57-year-old Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960) as he set out last February from Monaco. For the opener of his series, which will run to at least twelve specials over a five-year...
The divers moved as gracefully as if they were choreographed by Balanchine; the sharks circled with the sinister determination of a Pinter villain. Remarkably, there were no accidents. "It was good that we finished without trouble," said the chief cameraman, Cousteau's 27-year-old son Philippe, "because I...
> The Perry-Link Deep Diver, a 22-ft., 8¼-ton submersible that can operate at a depth of 1,350 ft. for as long as twelve hours, moving up, down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment...
Rivercraft and rescue squads quickly swept.the scene for survivors, picking up at least eight, along with five bodies. Divers spotted three more corpses in a car but were unable to recover any of the victims pinned in the submerged scrap heap. It will take weeks of work to cut them...
Murphy, a junior who won the Eastern Seaboard three-meter diving event last year, outclassed the Springfield divers, winning in championship style. His dives of 2.7 and 2.8 difficulty won marks of seven and eight from the judges and loud applause from the awed crowd.