Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After trading first place finishes, the Crimson picked up some hetty points when its divers led by sophomore. All American Dan Watson, swept both the one and three-meter events.
Hays commended Harvard's diving corps, noting that all three divers made the NCAA qualifying cuts in the one-meter event.
There have been other attempts to recover the bounty of the Mary Rose. In 1836 John Deane, using the first workable underwater diving helmet, teamed with his brother Charles to bring up some of the guns of the famous ship, along with a few timbers that were then made into...
More than a century later, the image of the wreck haunted the imagination of Alexander McKee, a historian who skindived throughout the Solent in order to find the vessel. In 1966 he discovered a 19th century naval chart that marked the site of the sinking. Says McKee: "I was electrified...
Before the ultimate lifting, the site of the Mary Rose had yielded a fabulous trove of Tudor memorabilia. Aside from cannons, by 1979 the divers began to bring up boxes of clothing, medicine chests and such objects as carpenters' tools, coins and pocket sundials, the Tudor equivalent of watches...