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What happened after that is still not clear, but somehow her ascent was delayed, and when she was pulled by her husband Francisco (Pipin) Ferreras from the water, 8 min. 40 sec. after submerging, she was foaming at the mouth. Attempts to revive her failed, and an autopsy found she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in the Big Blue | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

Director Jira Malikul's whimsical feature posits that the fireballs are set off by Lao monks, not soldiers. The dreamy opening sequence follows loincloth-clad divers as they plant clay "eggs" along the riverbed. Illuminated boats sweep by above, lighting up the expectant faces of the throng assembled along the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

Sixty years later, the Hermes is just one of the wrecks that forms a divers' paradise around Batticaloa, 132 kilometers south of Trincomalee (the wreckage of the Vampire is yet to be found). Sunken ships and other detritus of war litter the sandy bottom along the coast?including remains from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Until last year it was only possible to dive the east coast if you were accompanied by the Sri Lankan navy. "You had to bring your own equipment and be a pretty confident diver," says Mick Smith, an Australian-born Colombo resident. "But the wrecks are something special." Today, dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Send Me Bruckheimer and Bay! Time to rewrite those history books; earlier this week divers confirmed the discovery of a downed Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor. The sunken sub appears to corroborate a long-held theory that the U.S., not the Japanese, fired the first shot in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Considered Suicide Interceptors | 8/30/2002 | See Source »

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