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Most important thing you’ve learned at Harvard so far: A toboggan is really just a sled...
...Director Jack Megan fell off a sled earlier this month and broke several bones on his right side while playing with his children at his home in Concord, Mass., according to Cathleen D. McCormick, director of programs...
...British polar explorer Wally Herbert was in the middle of a long sled journey when he tripped on a piece of ice and fell. Sensing his vulnerability, his dogs viciously attacked him. After a few moments the dogs backed away to assess the damage they had done before resuming the attack. Herbert, seizing this opportunity, sprang up to his full height and grabbed his whip out of the sled. Knowing that the old order had returned, the dogs fell into line...
...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...
...IAFD president Carlos Serra, who was present, says Mestre's problem began when the air bag would not inflate properly, delaying her ascent. At 394 ft., according to Serra, she appears to have passed out and fallen off the sled. Serra concedes that there was a shortage of safety divers underwater ready to come to her aid. Says Serra: "We are still trying to address certain things, mechanical things, that are not explained...