Word: sled
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...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 an NFL linebacker standing...
...barely heard of 15 years ago, and the number is growing. Most practice the "constant ballast" technique, in which a diver uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable that pulls the diver to depths where Coke cans implode and fish swim nearly blind. An air bag at the top of the sled is inflated by the diver and shoots the diver to the surface. Because of the short submersion time, decompression sickness...
...break the record of 531.5 ft. set by Ferreras off Cozumel in Mexico in January 2000. Ferreras and other representatives of the group he founded in Miami, the International Association of Free Divers (IAFD), were present to monitor her dive, and a video camera was attached to Mestre's sled. Ferreras declined to comment to TIME on the accident, and the video footage has not been released...
...Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than the sled in Citizen Kane...
...America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends in Lake Placid, America's Cooperstown of winter sports tradition. Now Jim Jr. is a legend throughout the land, having slid through the storm on his small sled to dramatic, unexpected victory. And he, alone among athletes in Salt Lake, tried to take it to another level. He said medals and golds and winning were not important. He said what was important was doing it, along with all these other different people: doing what his granddad had done...