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For these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
Even the most experienced scuba divers rarely venture below 150 ft., however, owing to increasingly crushing pressure and the laborious decompression process required to purge the blood of nitrogen (which can form bubbles as a diver returns to the surface and cause the excruciating and sometimes fatal condition known as...
That includes some scientists. Although he has never been to the very deepest trenches, ocean explorer Robert Ballard of Woods Hole, who is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, is convinced that the action lies in the relative shallows. "I believe that the deep sea...
Harvard students will be going for the gold in track, crew, laser sailing, fencing, diving and ballroom dancing in the next year.
Jacobson, who has been diving only since her sophomore year of high school but had 12 years of prior gymnastics experience, needs just one more point (which she can accumulate by finishing in the top 12 in national tournaments) to qualify for Olympic trails.