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Womb & Mother. Given openings like these, psychiatrists are studying skindiving and making of it what they will. One common theory: water is the great mother symbol; divers are only trying to get back to the womb. Another: divers get an omnipotent superman sensation from playing with danger. Whatever the lure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

U.S. diving has quality to match quantity. At Malta last year, the world's spearfishing championship (done with held breath alone) was won by California's rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Terry Lentz, 22, who landed 15 fish weighing 106 Ibs. One of the finest free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Fear on the Reef. Cousteau could scarcely wait for the war to end to develop his new discovery. He sold the French navy on the virtues of the Aqua-Lung, soon got leave for government-backed oceanographic work on the 360-ton Calypso, a converted minesweeper from the British Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Cousteau's main concern is getting information from the deep, not interpreting it. His most recent invention is a two-man diving "saucer"' that operates free of the surface, maneuvers by electrically powered jets of water, can go down to 1,000 ft. In the works: an improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Surrealistic Sailor. Cousteau and his wife Simone, a pert, green-eyed blonde with a lineage of French admirals, have a sprawling mansion in Monaco, a Paris apartment, a hideaway on the Riviera. "I have no home. My clothes are spread all over the world." says Cousteau cheerfully. Nearest thing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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