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While on a scuba diving trip in the Florida Keys, Ely visited the University of Miami and found the faculty and atmosphere to be “intellectually alive,” according to the dean of Miami’s School of Law, Dennis O. Lynch...
...Deloitte & Touche uses DriveSavers for its most sensitive cases, such as the one last winter when a defendant in a court case who had been caught on security-camera footage threw the drive on which it was stored into an ice-covered lake. The drive was fished out by scuba divers and shipped to DriveSavers with lake debris still in it. "They were able to turn it around in two days," says Kris Haworth, Deloitte & Touche's senior manager of forensics...
...find out what their fish could and couldn't do, Stanton and his crew installed a fish tank and filled it with clown fish and blue tang, among others. Some became scuba divers to study their subjects more closely. They hired a "fabulous fish guy," Adam Summers, professor at the University of California at Irvine, who schooled them in the two types of swimming fish: rowers, who move their fins back and forth, and flappers, who move theirs up and down. By coincidence, Stanton had chosen one of each kind--a rower clown fish and a flapper blue tang...
...executive at the Swiss health-care company Roche, Scala, 38, hasn't had much time to pursue his hobby--scuba diving. He's been busy restructuring the pharmaceutical division and integrating a diagnostics firm Roche acquired. The workload isn't likely to let up when in June he takes over as CFO at Syngenta, the world's largest agrochemicals company, based in Basel. Scala's first priorities: raising awareness and confidence among investors...
Many couples opt for locations that not only are congenial to a ceremony but also offer opportunities to golf, fish, indulge in a spa treatment or explore another culture. Avid scuba divers Stephanie Dowling, 29, and Chad Eschmeyer, 28, of Scottsdale, Ariz., plan for their May 2004 wedding in the Virgin Islands to include a day of snorkeling and diving. They originally anticipated 15 guests. Now 50 guests, many of them fellow divers, are scheduled to stay in a resort the couple selected over the Internet for a week of activities, including celebrations of Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican festival...