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...heroes of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers (Random House; 375 pages) go to very great lengths, and even greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled...
...full tanks of air on their backs. Other hazards include the bends--brought on by ascending from the depths too rapidly--unreliable equipment, panicky colleagues grabbing another diver's air supply, collapsing shipwrecks and nitrogen narcosis, a state of mental impairment that afflicts divers below 70 ft. or so. Kurson takes us into the gossipy, cliquey subculture of hard-core wreck divers, men who can come to blows over a chipped teacup from a sunken cruise ship. He also expends a fair amount of ink trying to explain why anybody would risk so much for so little. The answer boils...
...singles action, freshman Denise Thal playing in the number-one spot, bounced back from Saturday's defeat in the hands of Lisa Rosenblum, Yale's three-time All-New England intercollegiate singles champ, to edge Tufts's Debbie Kurson, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6, and to demolish Pine Manor's Fayre McDonnell...
...motion picture, famous for its shots of Hedy Lamarr unclothed, will be brought here under the sponsorship of Ivy Films. Nothing will be cut out, according to George M. Kurson '51, who announced the showing yesterday...
George M. Kurson '50 replaces Lauriston Ward '50 as president of Ivy Films. Dick V. Blumenthal '51, was voted vice-President; Norman H. Hagstrom, '52, Treasurer; and H. Laurence, Oagood '50, Secretary. The retiring officers are the last founders of the three year-old organization remaining in the College...