Word: stover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN C. STOVER. D.V.M...
...Myadec," a Parke-Davis vitamin pill containing 25,000 units of vitamin A, was on sale Monday and Tuesday at College House Pharmacy and was also available at Billings and Stover, Inc., and at Colonial Drug...
...free swim to the surface was considered far too risky. Trapped along with Menzies in Sea-Link's forward observation compartment-a helicopter-like bubble made of plastic-was Marine Biologist Robert Meek, 27. The younger Link and Veteran Diver Albert Stover, 51, were sealed off separately in the aluminum aft compartment...
...realized that time was rapidly running out. The 9½-ton sub had only limited life-support chemicals. That was not the only problem. While the forward compartment's acrylic bubble acted as an insulator against the chilly (40° F.) sea, the rear compartment-where Link and Stover sat in light sports shirts and shorts-was quickly cooling off. The chill reduced the effectiveness of the chemical "scrubber," a sodium carbonate compound called Baralyme, which is used to remove exhaled carbon dioxide. To keep the chemical effective, the crew increased the air pressure inside the compartment...
...bittersweet success. Menzies and Meek emerged unharmed from their 31-hour ordeal in the forward compartment, where the atmosphere had remained at about sea-level pressure. But rescuers had to leave Link and Stover (whose motionless bodies could be seen through portholes) inside the aft compartment while it was slowly depressurized; if the men were still alive, suddenly opening the hatch at sea level would have caused a possibly fatal case of bends. When the hatch was opened, the fears were confirmed: both Link and Stover had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. Heartbroken by the loss, the elder Link nonetheless...