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We entered [the White House]and having twice or thrice rung a bell which nobody answered ... on the ground floor, as divers other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely ... The greater portion of this assemblage . . . had no particular business there...
Rat Hat. Oceaneering now has 951 employees, including 500 divers, working in 25 countries, mainly for the booming offshore oil and gas industry. The company's skills, which earned it $7 million in 1975 on total revenues of $52 million, include surveying drilling sites, building submarine pipelines, and maintaining...
Oceaneering has grown largely because of technological innovations that enable its divers to descend as far as 1,000 ft.-a depth that was rarely attempted a few years ago. It has developed, among other items, a complex fiber glass "rat hat" that warms the helium-oxygen mixture that divers...
The suits, pumps, lighting gear and other support equipment needed to put one diver on the bottom today can cost more than $500,000-one factor that gives a firm of Oceaneering's size a competitive edge. Another expensive item is the diver himself. Oceaneering trains its own divers...
Don't you like opponents who can swallow you up like giant clams sucking down helpless Hawaiian pearl divers? Prince Ieukea, the Hawaiian nobleman who has given up his crown to become a big-time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn...