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...years, British Cameraman Peter Scoones has had an unlikely dream. A dedicated scuba diver, he wanted to photograph a live coelacanth (pronounced seal-ah-kanlh), the ancient, almost legendary, stump-legged fish which once was believed to have died out soon after the dinosaurs. Now this paparazzo of the deep has nailed his prey. Last week Scoones released rare color photographs of one of these "living fossils," swimming contentedly for his camera in the Indian Ocean off the Comoro Islands near the Malagasy Republic...
...answer is ... Pam Stone, freshman diver extraordinaire...
Walker says dedication and extreme powers of concentration are reasons for Stone's emergence as a blue-chip diver. Similarly, Pam's roommates marvel at her ability to drag herself out of bed after a late evening for morning practice and her ability to work through practically any distraction when necessary...
Freshman Adele Joel and first-year diver Pam Stone have been the most consistently fast times against Princeton last week, including the medley relay Senior stalwart Sharon Beckman has been plagued by illness, and Emily Feldman and Julie McAree are on their way up--but they're not quite there...
...Restrepo" is 22, about average age for that specialist known as a cocaine diver. He is darker skinned than most Colombians and a good swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of cocaine dumped overboard from a Grancolombiana line freighter docked at the Atlantic Avenue wharf in Brooklyn. He works at night, wearing a black wetsuit, and he is very cautious. A similar diver, Carlos Riascos, had his throat slit and body dumped in the river as he clambered ashore with...