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...told Naber I was going below the stands to see if I could interview a scuba diver. "You may have put me on to something," I said...
...Swimmers don't have anyone to commune with except themselves," Naber said. "Nothing but the rush of water by their ears, hour after hour in practice. Many of them sing to themselves to pass the time. I used to hum Smoke on the Water. Divers, on the other hand, stand around in the open air. They preen a lot, very conscious of their bodies because they're judged on their looks. They're like high-fashion models. They spend a lot of time gabbing at each other in Jacuzzis...
...Naber turned to me. "Why are you so excited about Sammy's Shammies?" he asked suddenly...
...give you a hand," Naber said sympathetically. "I'll tell you the place to watch women's diving from, and that's from the underwater portholes with the camera crews. Very privileged place. Especially off the 10-meter board. The girls tend to have what we call pullaways. Their suits can't take the stress of coming into the water at that velocity. We never get complete pullaways, but certainly dramatic enough for the camera people. I could possibly get you in there...
...would have cost about a quarter-million dollars," Naber explained. "You can buy an awful lot of scuba divers for that amount of money...