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3 unusual facts about diver


Alberton railway station, Adelaide

However a significant amount of freight traffic used the nearby Rosewater Loop until 2008 when the Mary MacKillop Bridge over the Port River was opened.

Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge

But in 2005, in the wake of the death of Pope John Paul II, Mr Rann announced the rail bridge would be named after Saint Mary MacKillop.

The bridge was the subject of a successful community campaign, spearheaded by the local RSL and the Portside Messenger newspaper, to name it after Port Adelaide World War II hero, Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC, DCM instead of the State Government's unpopular choice of the 'Power Bridge'.


Anna Bader

Anna Bader (born 12 December 1983 in Mutlangen, Baden-Württemburg, Germany) is a German diver who won the bronze medal at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona at the High diving event behind Cesilie Carlton and Ginger Huber.

Bártová

Heidemarie Bártová (born 1965), retired female diver from the Czech Republic

Black-throated Loon

The Black-throated Diver is the current school emblem of Achfary Primary School.

Blue Peter badge

Gold badge holders include Leo Stuchbury (1993) who was awarded this badge for being the youngest ever person to complete the National Swimathon at the age of 6, Christopher Newby (2000), David Beckham, JK Rowling, Stephen Payne, Queen Elizabeth II (2001), Tom Daley (2009), David Tennant (2009), Anthony Horowitz (2011) and Sir Jonathan Ive (2013).

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

Chapter Music

In December 2013, Chapter Music artists Dick Diver, Primitive Calculators, Bushwalking and Beaches featured in the critics' lists of the mess + noise and Guardian websites, as they selected their best Australian albums of 2013.

Chiemsee Cauldron

The Chiemsee Cauldron was discovered in 2001 by a local diver at the bottom of Lake Chiemsee, about 200m from the shore near Arlaching, Chieming municipality.

Conger

In July, 2013 an experienced diver was attacked by a conger eel in Killary Harbour, Ireland, at a depth of 25 meters.

David Boudia

In the sixth and last round, Boudia won gold with a total score of 568.65, finishing ahead of world champion Qiu Bo (566.85) and hometown favourite Tom Daley (556.95).

Dibiasi

Klaus Dibiasi (born 1947), former diver from Italy, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics

Carlo Dibiasi (1909–1984), Italian diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

Diver training organizations

Diver training organization generally refers to a diving school for training recreational, technical, commercial, military and other professional divers.

Don't Forget the Diver

#The title pays homage to the wartime catchphrase of Tommy Handley in the ITMA shows, 'Don't forget the diver sir; do not forget the diver' about the character Deepend Dan.

Fernando Telles Ribeiro

Fernando Telles Ribeiro (born April 12, 1938 in Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro) is a male diver from Brazil.

Goodwin Heart Pine

After a diver friend gave him antique long leaf pine logs found in the Suwanee River for his own project, the idea to reclaim logs from rivers was expanded into a sawmill operation in Micanopy, Florida.

He Chong

At the 2008 Olympics He Chong defeated an elite field of divers including, the two time world champion Alexandre Despatie, the 2006 world cup champion Qin Kai, and eight time Olympic medalist Dmitri Sautin.

Howard Knox Ramey

In February 2007, diver Ben Cropp reported that he had found the wreckage of the plane.

Jacques Mayol

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story (and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea

The first recorded Japanese presence in German New Guinea dates back to the beginning of the 20th century when a pearl diver, Isokichi Komine from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands relocated to Rabaul in October 1901.

Kassidy Cook

Cook has been linked romantically to British diver Tom Daley in reports circulating in the British press.

Kenneth Arnold

He was an avid swimmer and diver being good enough at the latter to try out for the U.S. Diving team.

Kidd Brewer

His son, Pierce Oliver "Kidd" Brewer Jr., a professional diver, appeared in the James Cameron films Piranha II: The Spawning and The Abyss.

Konrad Gehringer

The Speleonaut was designed in collaboration with Gehringer's friend, the cave diver Jochen Hasenmayer, who has used it since 1996 to explore the Blautopf cave system.

Lothar Matthes

Lothar Matthes (born 23 July 1947) is a German former diver who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Master Diver

Master Diver usually refers to an experienced person in Underwater diving or Scuba diving.

Nancilea Foster

Foster also came from a sporting family, where her sister Holly Jo was a successful Big Ten diver at Ohio State University, and her father Olen Underwood, a retired state administrative judge, played for the New York Giants, Houston Oilers, and Denver Broncos in the National Football League (NFL).

New World Publications

During Paul's decade-long stint as owner/operator of the Cayman Diver he had amassed an extensive library of underwater images.

Omega Seamaster

Daniel Craig, the current James Bond of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, also wears the Omega Seamaster: the Seamaster Planet Ocean and Seamaster Diver 300 M in Casino Royale, and even goes so far as to mention Omega by name in the film when questioned by Vesper Lynd.

Phil Hermanson

After graduating Goddard High School, five miles from Wichita, Kansas, he joined the United States Navy and served as a deep sea diver from 1983-1990.

Prince Talal bin Muhammad

Prince Talal’s sporting interests include Polo, Furusiyya (traditional Arab/Islamic military horsemanship), Scuba Diving (PADI Advanced Diver Rating) Motorcycling, and Alpine Skiing.

Sergei Chalibashvili

Well-known diver Greg Louganis was a participant in the competition and witnessed the incident.

Shark tourism

The Great White industry was founded in the 1970s by pioneer Australian diver and Great White victim Rodney Fox in South Australia.

Sharon Finneran

Her daughter, Ariel Rittenhouse, was an Olympic diver who placed fourth in the women's synchronized springboard at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and her brother, Mike Finneran, was an Olympic diver who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Sheck Exley

Exley and German cave diver Jochen Hasenmayer became friends and rivals in the 1980s, each repeatedly attempting to break the depth records of the other.

Simon Wiggins

He is the brother of former AFL player Patrick Wiggins (with whom he now plays at Sunshine) and is married to Australian diver, Loudy Wiggins.

Simone Schaller

She joined the Los Angeles Athletic Association in 1932 so that she could compete on the track team and met Aileen Allen, an Olympic diver in 1920, who encouraged to try and make the Olympic team and coached her.

Sjöqvist

Ingeborg Sjöqvist (born 1912), Swedish diver who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics

SS Carolina

In the event, Chatteron would eventually salvage the purser's safe from the Carolina with renowned wreck diver Gary Gentile, which was found to contain gold coin and jewelry.

Stacey Bentley

In her high school days she was a diver and later continued her education at Franconia College in New Hampshire.

Standard diving dress

Borelli designed a dress that consisted of a metal helmet, a pipe to "regenerate" air, a leather suit, and a means of controlling the diver's buoyancy.

Submarine Products

They developed a unique diver delivery vehicle (the Subskimmer), and were important for introducing high quality plastics (e.g. ABS) into the manufacture of underwater breathing apparatus.

Suzzanne Douglas

On stage, Douglas performed the role of Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera starring Sting and Dr. Bearing in Wit, where she was the first African American to perform the role.

The Brave Express Might Gaine

Guard Diver is a super robot, and the Rescue Express is a combined super bullet train (SNCF TGV Sud-Est).

The Very Beast of Dio

#"Rainbow in the Dark" (Dio, Vivian Campbell, Bain, Vinny Appice) – 4:16 (from the album Holy Diver)

Tom Mount

He was also a founding member of the National Association for Cave Diving, the first cave diver training organization in the United States.

William Booth Wecker

William (Will) Booth Wecker (December 17, 1892 – September 3, 1969) was an American entertainer and all around showman and was also the agent for his wife Bee Kyle the well known high diver.

Wreck diving

For technical divers there are fewer wrecks that have attracted widespread popularity, although for years the SS Andrea Doria was regarded as the "Mount Everest" of wrecks to challenge the diver.


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