Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom in a flexible diving suit (as he must if he wants to do any work there), he is not sheltered from the pressure of the water, which increases about one pound per square inch for every two feet of descent. The air that he breathes, pumped into his helmet through a tube from the surface, must have pressure enough to keep the water out. Such pressure is not kind to frail human flesh...
Boatswain Wookey, a ruddy, biggish man, made his dive in standard diving equipment (a rubberized fabric suit with a round helmet), but behind him stood the calculations of many scientists who had scheduled every minute and foot of the dive. A crew of engineers and pathologists helped him into the water or watched instruments in the hold of the Reclaim...
...began when a hard-of-hearing friend. Radiologist Kenneth Allen, asked Victoreen to make him a gadget that would enable him to hear without straining at medical conventions. Size and weight were no object. Said Dr. Allen: "I don't care if I have to wear a football helmet and carry the batteries in a suitcase...
...first man hits Matsko headon, driving his helmet for the captain's belly. Matsko braces for the shock, comes up and under and tosses his attacker aside. Agase gives him no rest. "Get him out of there. Get him out of there," shouts The Animal. As soon as one man hits, another starts his charge. Matsko holds his ground. Again a helmet shoots for his belly; Matsko catches the thrust with his shoulder, brings up his forearm in a vicious swipe to bounce his tormentor clear. After six attacks he is still there. His face stretches into weird contortions...
Bill Holden, starring in his first independent picture, is the rocket jockey; and as if it is not hard enough to fly an airplane at 1,900 m.p.h.. the script makes him fly it with a big load of guilt-edged insecurities riding inside his crash helmet...