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Audrey Mestre took the last of a series of deep breaths floating in the ocean off the Dominican Republic on Oct. 12, then plunged below the surface. The Frenchwoman, 28, dropped rapidly, one hand pinching her nose to help equalize the pressure in her ears, the other clinging to a metal-frame sled weighing 200 lbs. After 1 min. 42 sec., she reached 561 ft., the deepest any human has ever dived on one breath of air. A spokesman for Mares, the diving-equipment manufacturer that sponsored the event, said the water pressure Mestre endured was "akin to having...
...huge military cargo ships left the U.S. for the Indian Ocean in the last fortnight...
...hour-long training course is a small but important part of Mauritius' ambitious plans to turn itself into a hub for information and communications technology. The Indian Ocean island boasts one of Africa's most successful economies. Under French and then British control, nearly all available land was given over to growing sugarcane. But after independence in 1968, the government pinned development on diversification, luring Asian textile manufacturers with cheap labor and tax-free exporting zones. In the 1980s the country also invested in tourism and offshore banking. Economic growth has exceeded 5% a year over the past two decades...
...island and recently opened a university of technology to churn out IT workers. "But the lack of education is still a massive problem," says Eric Charoux, director of DCDM Business School, Mauritius' largest private university. "There are just not enough students coming through." This dot in the ocean, he says, would welcome techies who lost their jobs in the U.S. dotcom bust and would like to start over in an island paradise...
Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme is public relations chair for the BGLTSA. Justin C. Ocean and Zachary M. Subin are co-chairs of BOND...