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...Sommers cut a hole in the ice and went ahead anyway. "I just ate Cream of Wheat beforehand, and took some extra precautions," he relates. The feat caught the eyes of several skin diving magazines, who noted that it was the first time anyone has swum under ice without scuba gear. (Historians now dispute the legend that Houdini pulled the same stunt in 1906. Sommers is obviously not eager to repeat the feat...
...offense, well, it's tough to expect much on a day better suited for scuba diving. Freshman Walter Diaz turned in another marvelous performance for Harvard, but constantly found himself thwarted by either a timely URI foul just as he was about to break a play, the turf, or a Ram defense that was in a word, stingy...
...career for the aged. By then ambition, at least of an opportunistic sort, is spent, he says. "When you are 65, you have proven yourself already or you have not. It does not matter any more. We are no longer on the make." For Hayakawa, politics is much like scuba diving, which he has just taken up. "It is scary, but extremely exhilarating," he says. "If you have ceased to be ready to face the frightening, then you become old. We weren't put on earth to behave like barnacles...
...Finding gold is like playing blackjack in Reno-it's a sport and a game of chance," says James Manion, 29, an unemployed Sacramento warehouseman. He claims to have found two nuggets last month worth $1,500. In search of more, he put on scuba gear and spent four hours under water one Sunday, searching the Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed...
Nemiroff, an ardent scuba diver, began his research on a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after hearing reports of people who had survived long submersion without apparent ill effect. A study of some 60 near drownings convinced him that in warmer waters, the limit for submersion without death or brain damage probably was four minutes. But in waters below 21° C. (70° F.), the four-minute rule seemed to be suspended. Of 15 victims rescued after a minimum of four minutes from the chilly waters that abound in Michigan, Nemiroff found, two died of lung...