Word: swim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...included four underwater cameramen and a group of commercial divers who ordinarily work on offshore oil rigs and salvaging of wrecks. They worked in teams of four, transferring through an air lock from an on-deck pressurized living chamber to a diving bell from which they could swim to the wreck. This "saturation diving" allowed them to stay under water for up to eight hours, without intervals of time-consuming subsurface decompression...
...horseshoe crabs, moon snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot fish, grunts and blow fish swim in a traffic jam of color through the coral reef. Below, sea turtles and rays settle into the simulated depths, sometimes with understandable uneasiness, as eight species of shark hover near...
...STANDS, Tarzan, the Ape Man is a misleading title for the movie. Tarzan has very little to do with anything. Something like Bo Derek Takes Off Her Shirt in Exotic Places would be much more appropriate. She takes off her shirt to swim in the Great Inland Sea, she takes off her shirt to swim with Tarzan, she takes off her shirt to get painted chalk-white by restless natives. And rumor has it that she even took off her shirt to wrestle with an alligator, but, alas, that scene was left on the cutting room floor by censors...
Barry Goldwater, 73, Arizona Senator, at a Washington sports exhibit: "I've played everything-baseball, football, basketball. I still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk...
...pool deck at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the nearest suitable pool, to play Jack Eric Williams' score. A backdrop screen showed footage of underwater escapades while Vermont-raised Boyce and her nine mostly nonprofessional performers splashed, sang, burbled, slithered and dived de deux. Far from synchronized swimming, Waterbodies explored movement with the playful exuberance of a midnight swim...