Word: diversion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of Columbia's stronger points is the diving event. Gene Grossman and Paul Van Eikeren alternate in the top spot for the Lions. Because Columbia does not use a high board, the competition today will restricted to the low board, which may give the Crimson divers more difficulty.
The major fault with the team is that it lacks vital freestyle depth. Nevertheless, the team does contain some varsity material in divers Bill Murphy and Tim Mahoney, freestylers Bill Swisher and John Bragg, and individual medleyist Dan Thompson.
We will also lose the diving events. The Cornell divers are collectively the best in the East with Jay Moses, Tom Casel, and Bill Paxton all holding high individual rankings.
Most of the equipment actually exceeded expectations. Cousteau's prototype breathing apparatus, which recycles a helium-based artificial atmosphere supplied from the sphere, en abled divers to work outside the cap sule without any time limit. Inside, a miniaturized mass spectrograph, especially adapted for the experiment, monitored composition of...
Con Shelf's most practical experiment turned out to be its most spectacular success. To check on man's ability to work underwater, divers went down more than 375 ft. to set up a 16-ft. "Christmas tree," a complex of valves and connecting pipes by which the...