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...Last week the Navy demonstrated the early results of Lieut. Commander Draim's idea. A group of Navy hands took a pickup truck to a lagoon at Point Mugu and unloaded a crude wooden missile about 6-ft. long. Navy frogmen put it on a rubber raft, paddled 200 ft. from shore and dumped the model overboard. It floated upright with the point of its nose in sight...
...frogmen returned to shore, paying out an insulated wire as they went. After a short countdown, an officer pressed a button, sent along the wire an electrical impulse that touched off a small, solid-propellant aircraft rocket in the model's tail. The model rose sedately out of the water, climbed to about 60 ft. and plopped down again. It all looked too easy to be true. Nothing but water was needed to hold the rocket upright, and only water was affected by its blast. Even if the rocket had carried 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel...
...Oxygen lungs have one great advantage: they recycle the diver's carbon dioxide through a purifier, let no bubbles escape to the surface. For this reason they are used by military frogmen, who would be betrayed by the telltale stream of bubbles from a compressed-air lung, which discharges spent breath into the water...
...dolphins and trying to converse with them. The Navy's interest in the project is in basic research; it wants to know everything possible about the sea. including the ways that sea creatures communicate. "After all," says Dr. Sid Caller of the Office of Naval Research, "submarines and frogmen are but poor replicas, hydrodynamically speaking, of what a dolphin does naturally." For instance, by swinging their heads from side to side, and uttering ultrasonic boops, dolphins can "look" through 20 ft. of muddy water and tell whether a fish is good eating. The Navy, whose own sonar is much...
Last week, financed by the enterprising German weekly Der Stern, a seven-man team of frogmen, equipped with an underwater TV camera, successfully brought up from the depths of Toplitz Lake 300,000 phony pounds in good condition, the first of an estimated ?16 million believed hidden there. Scotland Yard only yawned: the British long ago had changed the design of their ?5 and ?10 notes. Just to be safe, Austrian police decided to destroy all the notes they could find...