Word: frogmen
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...surface in Portsmouth harbor," said an assistant naval attachè at the Soviet embassy, but "we were in a British port and there was nothing we could do." It was nevertheless true that soon after anchoring, the Ordzhffuikidze had taken the precaution of putting a crew of its own frogmen over the side...
...show last week was entering its sixth year for the same sponsor (Skippy Peanut Butter), You Asked's cameras interviewed the dietician for San Diego's zoo, poked into an exhibition of whipcracking and sharpshooting, covered a test cracking of office safes and dived with Navy frogmen in action...
...back to their sets at the same time week after week. Like politicians, the standbys are often corrupted by long tenure. Last week a batch of new candidates took the platform to win the weekly vote. Navy Log, the best of them, started off with a tense incident about frogmen that captured much of the eerie excitement of underwater warfare as long as its frogmen stayed below. Out of the water, they were left to founder in a thoroughly contrived dramatic situation...
Under the supervision of Ivan Alexander, Magnolia's exploration chief, four full-fledged geologists and two technicians practiced skin diving until they could pass the Navy's test for frogmen. Then, led by Dr. Daniel Feray, they embarked on the Gulf in a converted shrimp boat, went overboard and flapped along the bottom. Working in water up to 65 ft. deep off eastern Texas, they picked up samples of sediments, gathered sea creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural...
Gulf are not very different from their fossil ancestors. Each species has its preference for sand, mud or shell bottom. If scientific frogmen learn enough about the modern sea creatures, they may be able to use their forebears in the deep rocks to point where a reef or sand bar (now saturated with oil) lies hidden not far away...