Word: diversitied
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For these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
Even the most experienced scuba divers rarely venture below 150 ft., however, owing to increasingly crushing pressure and the laborious decompression process required to purge the blood of nitrogen (which can form bubbles as a diver returns to the surface and cause the excruciating and sometimes fatal condition known as...
You are a freshman, one of two divers on the Harvard women's swimming team. You are certainly among the elite 10-meter platform divers in the country, perhaps even among the top three. You have enough talent to make it to the United State Olympic Trials or maybe even...
The Championships, held in Midland, TX, attract the best divers--both collegiate and non-collegiate--in the nation. The event is a semi-yearly opportunity to gain points (which are accumulated by finishing in the top eight at national tournaments) in the national rankings. If a diver can accumulate four...
"The Olympics are a long ways away," Jacobson says. "I would be just happy to qualify for the Olympic Trials. That would just be an amazing experience for me. Only two divers are taken to the Olympics. There not even a guarantee that I'll make it to the Olympic...