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I Swam Across The Rocks And Compared Myself Favorably With The Sars. To Swim Fishlike, Horizontally, Was The Logical Method In A Medium Eight Hundred Times Denser Than Air. To Halt And Hang Attached To Nothing, No Lines Or Air Pipe To The Surface, Was A Dream. At Night I Had Often Had Visions Of Flying By Extending My Arms As Wings. Now I Flew Without Wings. (since That First Aqualung Flight, I Have Never Had A Dream Of Flying.)

The Road To The Future Leads Us Smack Into The Wall. We Simply Ricochet Off The Alternatives That Destiny Offers. Our Survival Is No More Than A Question Of 25, 50 Or Perhaps 100 Years.

There Was Wildlife, Untouched, A Jungle At The Border Of The Sea, Never Seen By Those Who Floated On The Opaque Roof. Describing His Early Experience, In 1936, When A Fellow Naval Officer, Philippe Tailliez, Gave Him Goggles To See Below The Mediterranean Sea Surface.

All Life Is Part Of A Complex Relationship In Which Each Is Dependent Upon The Others, Taking From, Giving To And Living With All The Rest.

There Is About As Much Educational Benefit To Be Gained In Studying Dolphins In Captivity As There Would Be Studying Mankind By Only Observing Prisoners Held In Solitary Confinement.