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Altogether, divers and dredgers retrieved 8,524 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 127 pontoon-bridge sections, 16 trucks, eight tanks, 104 small boats and barges, ten large sunken wrecks and 15 airplanes, not to mention oil drums, anchors, beer cans and one old toilet. Some 686,000 mines and other explosives...
Essick and the divers pulled into Independence Tuesday, joining the swimmers yesterday for what Essick predicted would be "a phenomenal swim meet...one of the best in the world."
Today through Saturday the Harvard swimmers and divers will be splashing it out against the best talent in the country, and while Essick refused last night to make any predictions. Harvard is looking to Hess Yntema and Bob Fullerton to bring home the bacon.
The Crimson aquamen suffered an unbelievable series of mishaps in the initial day of the meet on Thursday. The divers did poorly in the one-meter diving, the 200 individual medley was a disaster, and the 50 free was visited with bad luck.
The event where Harvard will be "better than ever" is the diving. All three of the Crimson's divers, Dave English, Roger Johannigman, and Mike Toal, have performed consistently well since the exam break. English and Johannigman placed in last year's diving competition.