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By the time he was 13, Murray was representing his Hopkins Diving Club at the Junior National Championships as one of the top young divers on the eastern coast.
TOMAS DE BERLANGA, BISHOP OF Panama, named them Las Encantadas--the Enchanted Isles--in 1535, and more than 4 1/2 centuries later, it's hard to argue with his view of the Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off...
French President Jacques Chirac is prepared to go through with controversial nuclear tests in the South Pacific at any moment despite waves of protest around the world today, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports. This afternoon, French navy commandos stormed two Greenpeace ships and arrested two divers near the South Pacific...
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...