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The Aquanauts (CBS), a new series, turned out to be sea-horse opera of the first water about a pair of professional divers. The first episode got them into a struggle to outdo another diver in collecting manganese deposits off Hawaii. It could have been so much submarine corn if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The New Shows | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Ready for Men. Few of the bodies that the undertakers snatch from the drink have any re-use value; they are much too beat-up. But the Air Force pays Berger to go after every fragment; it doesn't want secret apparatus lying around on the ocean bottom, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Canaveral Undertakers | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

The problem had badgered divers as far back as 5000 B.C.. when the Sumerians spun the tale of a swimmer who sought the weed of eternal life beneath the waves. Down through the centuries, woodcuts show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Records & Rapture. Cousteau maintains that he had no idea what he had started when he first stood on his finger and laughed aloud in his Aqua-Lung. Whole new fields are opening up for free divers, who, like Cousteau, soon tire of skewering fish as too easy (cracks one Frenchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

To make the sport as safe as a Saturday-night bath, Cousteau recommends a rigorous training course that, among other things, requires two divers to exchange all their equipment in 15 ft. of water. The best divers are reflective, methodical men who calmly do all the right things in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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