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Only one of the crew that worked on this week's cover story can be classed as a bona-fide expert sailor. He is Charles Lundgren, a noted marine painter who has been sailing for more than 40 years, once was in the crew of a boat that won the Bermuda race, sails his own 37-ft. sloop and is a longstanding member of the New York Yacht Club. He sketched and photographed Sailor Mosbacher in action from the deck of Mary Poppins, Intrepid's tender, and at the dock, and revisited his sub ject and scene until...
...currently glamorous sport of scuba diving, such as Cousteau's "rapture of the deep" and the decompression "bends," a Swedish physician has added another. It is of such deceptive simplicity that it has been generally overlooked. Pressure changes in the middle ear, reports Aviation Physiologist Claes E. G. Lundgren in the British Medical Journal, may cause dizziness so severe that the afflicted diver literally does not know which way is up and may swim to the bottom when he wants to head for the surface...
...Lundgren believes that the divers most prone to the dangers of dizziness are those who have suffered head colds recently, or severe ear infections even long ago. Head stuffiness makes it difficult for anyone to equalize the air pressure in his middle ears with that outside...
...decrease in pressure during ascent from the deeps may not be compensated quickly enough-and inequality of pressure in the two ears may upset the sense of balance. In the severe cases reported to Lundgren, some divers said that the surface or the bottom of the sea appeared to tilt at an odd angle, then rotate slowly and even start spinning rapidly. An obvious warning: people who have just had colds should avoid diving...
...LUNDGREN...