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It was too late. The car crashed through a wooden barrier at an estimated 45 m.p.h. As witnesses watched its one working taillight disappear in water 30 ft. deep, first DeLisle and then his wife splashed to the surface. Luckily, two men in a powerboat saw the couple and pulled...
When it comes to getting and staying wet, there are still, of course, plenty of purists who have no use for oversize whirlpool baths and plastic logs. "You never swam till ya swam in a quarry," declares Marilyn Woodruff, owner for the past 22 years of Clearwater Quarry near Toledo...
If the Navy has its way, the Trident nuclear-submarine base at Bangor, Wash., will soon be guarded by an uncanny underwater-surveillance system. Vastly more powerful than the Navy's most sophisticated sonar, it can identify real threats to the base, distinguishing them from the normal cacophony of noise...
In the late 1960s at the Naval Undersea Center in Point Mugu, Calif., and then in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, dolphins were trained for duty in the Viet Nam War. In particular, the animals learned to attack objects with barbed darts. The plan was to have dolphins help protect Cam Ranh...
The extent to which dolphins were used in the war is classified information, but rumors persist that they killed enemy divers. Point Mugu veterans consider it more probable that the animals helped capture divers alive for interrogation. Upon realizing what the dolphins' mission would be, some of the trainers begged...