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The Flotsam. Fifteen ships plowed through calm, moonlit seas near the crash scene, and soon eleven helicopters skimmed low over the surface. They dropped flares, illuminated the area with floodlights, held rescue divers at the ready to plunge into the icy water should there be any sign of survivors. There...
Oddly enough, the film is most absorbing when Cousteau lets his camera or his commentary dwell on the extraordinary detail of his men's day-to-day existence. In the heavy air, laden with double the normal amount of oxygen, cuts and abrasions heal overnight. Beards almost stop growing...
Infected with Experiment. Geneticist Haldane would have been the first to deny that his intellectual gifts and interests could have been genetically determined, but there was no doubt that they were early and firmly imprinted on him by his father, John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Longtime professor of physiology at...
Plainly, the state's offhand attitude invites the kind of freebooting enterprise for which Board Chairman Kidd's namesake was notorious. Salvage operators have already reported the appearance of well-equipped-and armed -claim jumpers, as well as thousands of lone-wolf divers who spend their weekends swarming...
Hanging on a Yo-Yo. Points are awarded in parachuting for style jumps, in which sky divers execute a prescribed series of spins, somersaults, twists and turns during a 120-m.p.h. free fall lasting 25 to 32 sec. But the biggest emphasis is on accuracy jumps, trying to zero in...