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Then Lieut. G. H. Stainforth taxied out in another S-6B to attack Orlebar's world speed record. With a diving start from 1,400 ft. down to about 150 ft., he flashed six times back & forth over a straight- away of about 1.8 mi. The crowds saw only...
News which came was that the Nautilus lay floating amid ice debris north of Spitsbergen and about 400 mi. from the North Pole. Ice had broken off the submarine's diving fins. Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When...
These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in...
Divers. When Georgia Coleman executes a swan-dive, front or back jackknife, gainer ("flying dutchman"), back-flip or somersault, she does it more efficiently than any other female in the civilized world. So fluent, so sure are her motions in the air that spectators would not be surprised if, as...
Wet and shivering, slapping at mosquitoes, the party assembled on the cay. After a while Capt. Taylor took the crew back to the hulk of the Livonia to fish for clothing and supplies. These secured, the captain attempted to salvage Bishop Shedden's belongings by diving into the cabin...