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At 37, Yoshio Oyama was a skilled veteran in deep-sea diving. For 20 years he had flirted, unscathed, with underwater hazards, of which the deadliest is the invisible "bends"-nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood and forming bubbles that cause excruciating pain or paralysis. A fortnight ago...
From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru...
By good luck, U.S. Navy radiomen had picked up a message about Oyama's plight. The Navy's headquarters at Yokosuka ordered the nearest submarine rescue ship, the Coucal, to Oyama's aid. The Coucal clipped four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500...
Unhappily, Vercors metaphysical skin-diving never gets much below the level of a mad-scientist movie in this odd tale of a man seeking "the refuge of non-being."
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...