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DANIEL MEDLEY, manager of British children's museum Wookey Hole Caves, on why a museum guard dog suddenly ripped apart hundreds of teddy bears in a $900,000 exhibit--including a bear reportedly worth $75,000 that once belonged to Elvis Presley and was on loan from a British aristocrat...
...David Wookey, vice president and general manager for Northwest Airlines in Asia, thinks it's important to give the customers the option of going high-tech, but "there will always be people who want a paper ticket and a flesh-and-blood check-in person to talk to." He's got a point. When your connection is snowed in and you miss the big meeting, you'll look a bit foolish screaming at a camera...
...When Wookey reached the chamber, he waited ten minutes while the pressure in his helmet was reduced to the pressure in the chamber (about 110 Ibs. per sq. in.). Then he climbed into the chamber itself, and Clucas took the front glass off his helmet. "He was so cold," said Clucas. "So very cold. He could hardly stand up when he reached me." The two men sat down for a long, dull, eight-hour wait, supplied with candy, hot coffee, reading matter...
...chamber with the two men inside was taken on board the Reclaim. For an hour they breathed pure oxygen to flush residual helium and nitrogen out of their systems. Then the door was opened, and they stepped out. At once they felt the dreaded pains of the bends, Wookey in his shoulders, Clucas in his legs and chest. They ran into a larger decompression chamber, where they were kept under oxygen for four more hours. When they came out, they felt fine, but tired and very hungry...
...Wookey had beaten the diving record by 65 ft. and he had done potentially useful work at 600 ft. He could have attached a cable to a sunken submarine at that depth. Some day he expects to go deeper; the limit, he feels, is imposed by cold and the long time needed for proper decompression. Asked why a man will do such a thing, Wookey says, "I think diving is intensely interesting, especially in shallow water. I go deeper because...