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...Hidebound. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, after Pedro Serafim, 25, fired two bullets into his head, another two into left lung, hit himself over the head with a hatchet, and began working on his throat with a saw, neighbors rushed him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him in good condition...
...declined so sharply that surgeons in some areas cannot find enough cases for comparative research. Reason for the drop (40% to 50%), Director John R. Heller of the National Cancer Institute (TIME cover, July 27) told Congress, is unknown. And it is more than offset by the increase in lung cancer...
...right things in a jam. They need not be especially powerful-in the weightless, silent world, a twitch of a flipper can provide all the power needed. Cousteau is convinced that nearly anyone with adequate training and common sense can learn to dive with an Aqua-Lung. Says he: "Free diving is safer than motorcycling...
...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...
...conflicting claims, skindivers believe that the deepest descent with held breath was made by a Greek sponge diver named Stotti Georghios, who in 1913 swam down 200 ft. to put a line on the lost anchor of an Italian battleship. Dumas' dive to 307 ft. with an Aqua-Lung is regarded as the record fro free diving...