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The M.I.T. Swim Club is presenting an Olympic exhibition Saturday at the Indoor Athletic Building. Profits will help finance the 1968 U.S. Olympic swimming and diving teams. The three-act show will feature performances by some of the top swimmers and divers in America.
"Conquering the Sea" shows how man will one day exploit the ocean for min erals, chemicals and enough food to feed a world population five times the size of today's. Among anticipated underwater developments: porpoises trained to act as liaisons between ships and divers, fish farming and coal...
The big limitation for scuba divers is not how deep they can go but how long they can stay under. Conventional compressed-air breathing units, which weigh 36 Ibs., are generally exhausted after one hour. Soon, according to this month's Skin Diver magazine, aquanauts will be able to...
Harvard divers Bill Murphy and Pete Alter were eliminated Saturday after the first round of the three-meter diving competition at the NCAA swimming championships in East Lansing, Mich. Murphy, diving in his first national championships, slipped up in an early dive and was unable to gain enough points to...
The first two rounds will be fiercely fought events. And Murphy's weakest dive -- a twisting optional -- must come in the first round. All 50 divers run through five dives in the preliminaries -- three are specifically required of everyone and the other two are optional.