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Near the close of the 1960s, a squadron of young scuba divers headed out into the warm waters of the South Pacific, tanks of air strapped to their backs and syringes at the ready. Their mission, one lethal injection at a time, was to put a stop to an outbreak...
In the days after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse claimed the lives of at least five people and injured more than 100, rescue divers are taking every precaution to make sure they don't join the tally of victims of the greatest disaster in modern Minnesota history. Shattered glass, gasoline...
But with the range of vision so poor, the divers have to use what one rescue official referred to as the "Braille method" of search, physically feeling their way through the water. Capt. Bill Chandler of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department supervises the rescue divers, a group of 20...
The debris just makes things worse. "It stirs things up so bad. The visibility's terrible," says Capt. John Grant, a member of the Dakota County (Minn.) Sheriff Department's dive team, one of several groups assisting in the effort. Indeed, officials are sending crews into the river cautiously. Said...
Instead, though we had no money and no organization, we found so many eager people that we managed to pull off 1,400 rallies in all 50 states on that Saturday in April. And they were just as cool as that long-ago march through Harvard Square: We had scuba...