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The front page of the 9 Aug 1997 issue of `Young Telegraph' (a children's supplement to the UK newspaper called `Daily Telegraph') shows what is obviously a picture of the Newtsuit or similar, computer-morphed into a space scenario (a high orbit of Earth), minus its helmet and backpack, plus an oversized transparent bubble helmet with oversided head inside and an umbilical cord. Two other references indicate how the image of diving has changed. One was a picture caption in a 1960's book, "There is a deep-sea look to this pressure suit for a high-altitude pilot". But in a recent UK TV comedy program written in these days when `diver' means fins and backpack breathing set to most people, one character called an old hardhat diving suit "a great clumsy thing that looks like a spacesuit". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ P.S: I bought a book of cartoons about poultry. Most of them are irrelevant here, but one was a bit scary for me as a diver! It showed a V-shaped flight of ducks with a jet fighter leading them at the point of the V. I thought: the jet fighter <better> be a model!! Else, from what I know of the diving reach and dredging power and swallowing capacity of ducks, I would <not> want to be scuba diving where a duck as big as a real jet fighter is about! -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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