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news Platform Diving
The Ohio State’s Sean Moore sets a new NCAA record with a score of 478.20 after nailing a couple of dives and earning 10’s on separate occasions. ...

news SMU Men's Swimming and Diving Finishes 14th at NCAAs
The SMU men's swimming and diving team finished the final day of the 85th Annual NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in 14th place, ...

news Merlin dives right in
And smack dab in the middle of it all was freshman diver Shawn Merlin, a Palmyra-Macedon graduate. Merlin finished in 12th place with a score of 398.20 to ...

news Wiktorsson Places 14th at NCAA Diving Championships
University of Hawai'i senior diver Mats Wiktorsson finished 14th in the platform diving final at the NCAA Championships hosted by the University of ...

news Despite openings, Pearl not diving at chance to leave
AP / March 30, 2008 Bruce Pearl led Tennessee to its winningest season, a brief No. 1 ranking, and a regular-season Southeastern Conference title in only ... Vols

news Frick finishes sixth in NCAA 3-meter diving
Hawai'i senior diver Magnus Frick finished sixth the 3-meter springboard today at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships at King County ...

news Federal Way dives into national spotlight
The Mirror For competitive college-level swimmers across the nation, the 2008 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship is a ...

news Sky-diving accident victim dies
A Canadian sky diver who crashed into a runway at the DeLand Municipal Airport has died, a hospital official said Friday night. ...

news Diving Bell refocuses viewers' eyes on life
But with his latest, the award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schnabel says he was able for the first time to show the viewer how a painter sees ...

news Diving's Tom Daley rises to the top
Already qualified to compete for Britain in the Olympics, the young diver this week took the gold medal at the European Championships in Eindhoven. ...

news Women's Swimming and Diving Season
In a season that featured a plethora of extraordinary individual accomplishments, the women's swimming and diving team enjoyed a slew of team successes ...

news UK freshman finishes 5th in NCAA diving finals
University of Kentucky freshman diver Stephen Andrews finished fifth on the 1-meter board in the finals of the men's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships ...

news NCAA Swimming and Diving Update- Day 2
Ben Hesen qualified first for tonight's 100 backstroke championship final with a time of 46.20 as day two of the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving ...

news Arizona Leads NCAA Swimming & Diving
After the first day of competition, Arizona leads the team standings with 137 points at the NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships. ...

news Funderburk Becomes First Men's Diving All-America In 51 Years
Senior Ryan Funderburk became the first University of North Carolina men's diver in 51 years to earn All-America honors when the Summerfield, NC, ...

news Dive St Abbs and Eyemouth makes a splash in London
By Janice Gillie BERWICKSHIRE Dive Tourism Association made a big splash at the London Dive Show this week. The two day event attracted over 14000 divers ...

news Swimming and Diving Places 13 on Pac-10
The Arizona State men and women's swimming and diving teams placed 13 total student-athletes on the Pac-10 All-Academic teams. ...

news 2008 Wyoming Swimming and Diving
For the Wyoming swimming and diving team, the 2007-08 season was a very special one. After both the Cowboys and Cowgirls finished third in the regular ...

news Buckhorn Village: Diving for dollars
By James Carnahan Last chance for citizens to speak to the Orange County Commissioners about Buckhorn Village is Tuesday, April 1 (no fooling). ...

news Lake Superior diving is a treasure in itself
Paul Buchanan went under an ice sheet at a recent ice diving class hosted by Innerspace Scuba Center in Bark Bay in Wisconsin. Submitted photo “The people ...

news Homework, Eagles and diving for a gold medal
I never went there with any thought of winning the individual men's 10m diving and had no idea that it would make me the youngest European champion. ...

news Concerns for future of diving club
Members of the Icicle Scuba Diving Club say the current facilities have been their home for more than 40 years, but if the baths is closed, they fear they ...

news Big Ten to send 63 to Swimming and Diving
Sixty-three student-athletes from eight of the Big Ten's 10 swimming and diving teams will compete in the 2008 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships ...

news YMCA to host scuba diving class
The Beckley-Raleigh County YMCA will be the place to be Saturday for anyone with an interest in scuba diving. From 8 am to 10 am, the Y will host a Discover ...

news Marine matters Diving sites under threat
By Kamakshi Gupta, Staff Reporter The construction boom is threatening the existence of dive sites in Dubai, a diving tour operator said. ...

news Diving for dollars
by Sandra Svoboda From the local to federal levels, officials who tend to the vital Lake St. Clair watershed say they're making progress. ...

news Dumpster Diving Dispute and Stolen Ride
12:38 pm A dumpster diver at the Columbia Falls dump stirred up a heap of trouble when he jumped into a dumpster that was already occupied by another diver. ...

news Diving Tom Daley's life is set to change
The financial rewards available purely from diving - like appearance fees and prize money - certainly do not come close to those from major sports such as ...

news YMCA is diving into $35M expansion
who used to be a lifeguard at a Y — at the pool at the Christian Street YMCA. The YMCA of Philadelphia and Vicinity has launched a $35 ...

news How to take a vacation from the diving dollar
By Carol Pucci Ariel Deardor, right, and friend Emily Magley visited Wide World Books & Maps in Wallingford last week, asking for help with "Paris for ...

news Carr turns in career-best time at Swimming and Diving
University of Arkansas junior Stephanie Carr turned in a career-best time in the 200 freestyle at the 2008 NCAA Swimming and Diving ...

news Viola Wins National Championship In Platform Diving
University of Miami sophomore Brittany Viola became just the third women's diver in UM history to win an NCAA Championship with a first ...

news Paradis Places 20th In 3-Meter Diving
Babson College sophomore Aaron Paradis wrapped up his first-ever trip to the NCAA Division III Men's Swimming and Diving Championships on ...

news Boys swimming and diving
The Virginia Tech-bound Baumler finished his high school career by sweeping the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke in the Bay Rivers District meet, ...

news Sub-Sea Diving Underwater office
When we first met in Dolphin Offshore's Belapur office, saturation diver Arjun Shetty's T-shirt declared: "I'm sotally tober." At our next meeting at his ...

news Swimming & Diving Tigers ready for title defense
Junior Kevin Johnston won the 100 free and junior Ryan Dykes won the 100 breaststroke and took second in 1 meter diving. Junior Eddie Kollar won the diving ...

news Chile seeks to make better wine to beat diving dollar
The US dollar's steady decline -- and its sharp impact on export revenue -- has galvanized Chile's wine industry to boost quality ...

news South Yorkshire diver feared dead
A DIVER from South Yorkshire is feared dead after failing to resurface from a dive in Scotland. Dad-of-four Neil Rodgers, aged 40, was last seen on Sunday ...

news NCAA Swiming and Diving Day One
Sarah Stockwell, Donna Smailis and Presley Bard posted the sixth-fastest time in the prelims on day one of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at ...

news Swimming and Diving Sets Summer Camp Dates
Swimming and Diving head coach Ron Farina has set the dates for the 2008 Seton Hall Swim Camp. In addition to Farina, assistant coach Dan ...

news Hoosiers Travel to NCAA Swimming and Diving
Indiana will head to the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, March 20-22 at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio. ...

news How to travel to the Summer Olympics
Typically, the most popular events are the opening and closing ceremonies, swimming, diving, and women's gymnastics," says Donald Williams, vice president ...

news Hokie remembers diving play against Yankees
I had to run forward, and it was a last minute dive,” Cueto said. “It’s against the Yankees, and I’ma college kid. Every college kid dreams of this ...

news Caribbean jaunt puts BDA diving in perspective
A group of scuba enthusiasts from Bermuda travelled to Turks and Caicos last week to experience some of the world's best diving. The group, from Triangle ...

news Diving for Virgin money
World champion pair of Wang Feng and Qin Kai clinched the first gold at the 2008 National Diving Championships by ...

news adrenalin.com.au named Best Tourism and Travel website 2008
Adrenalin’s website (www.adrenalin.com.au) was named as Australia’s best tourist and travel website in the annual AIMIA (Australian Interactive Media ...

news Dutchwomen wrap up competition at Swimming & Diving
The 2008 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships wrapped up Saturday at Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center on the campus of Miami University. ...

news Man on NOAA Vessel Dies While Diving
A man aboard an NOAA vessel died while diving near Key West and authorities are investigating why. The 54-year-old from Ramrod Key was ...

news Dobbs named Diver of the Year
Mac Dobbs became a diver in the seventh grade when he didn't make the basketball team. "I had a cousin (Michael McClain) who dove here," he said. ...

news USD's Smolczyk wins national diving title
Jill Smolczyk of the University of South Dakota won the program's first-ever national championship by a member of the women's diver or swimmer at the NCAA ...

news Scuba diver disappears while wreck diving in Scotland
CDNN Safety News Editor TOBERMORY, Scotland (16 Mar 2008) — Search and rescue teams are looking for a scuba diver who disappeared today ...

news Man On NOAA Vessel Dies While Diving
Authorities are investigating the death of a man who was diving near Key West aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel. ...

news Tribeca films feature sky-diving nun, Brazil cops
New York's Tribeca Film Festival revealed its star attractions on Monday, including films that depict a nun with a wild streak, ...

news Diving club enters stretch run to nationals
By Brody Mark With less than four months until the opening ceremonies, Angela Hill and her crew still have plenty of work to do before the first diver gets ...

news Go 'green' sea diving in the French Med
The French Riviera may not be the first place that springs to mind when planning a dive holiday but think again. Diamond Diving, located on the glamorous ...

news LeRoy adds another second in Zone diving
Today was an ideal time for preparing for next week's NCAA Championships," UT diving coach Dave Parrington said. "Lauren did very well in this competitive ...

news Area diving success continues
Justin Duncan of South Park clinched his second straight PIAA title on the meet's final dive. Duncan repeated with 428.65 points, followed by David Magaro ...

news PIAA Diving: Magaro settles for a silver
That’s what he set out to capture in Saturday’s PIAA Class AA boys’ Diving Championships. But what we want isn’t always what we get. ...

news Utah Diving Completes Season at Zone Regionals
Utah diver Kwan Ling Yu competed in the platform diving event at the NCAA Zone E Diving Regionals on Saturday. Yu placed 16th overall in the dive which ...

news Huskies Take Part In Diving Regionals
Three University of Connecticut divers took part in the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships at the University at Buffalo from ...

news Crocodiles dive like submarines
Crocodiles and alligators behave like sophisticated submarines to dive, surface or roll sideways without flippers or fins, researchers have discovered. ...

news AU Diving hosting NCAA Zone
By Mike Szvetitz When the NCAA Diving Zones begin today at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center, four Auburn University men’s divers won’t have to worry ...

news Schott wins Class L diving championship
At the Class M boys diving championships last year, Brad Schott never recovered from a sluggish first few dives, finishing a disappointing fifth. ....

news Young Leads Gophers at NCAA Zone Diving
Minnesota junior diver Cole Young (Overland Park, Kan.) led Minnesota on the first of three days of competition at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championship in ...

news Mailbag: Diving into the Rays-Yanks fray
One of the more poignant letters I received last week -- and that is not to say the various ones focusing on my IQ and parental lineage were not poignant ...

news Go Diving! at the Outdoors Show
Tens of thousands of scuba and outdoor enthusiasts from all over the UK will be flocking to the Go Diving! Show in Birmingham's NEC between 14 and 16 March ...

news Zarate told to cut the diving
by Ben Blackmore, 13 March 2008 Alex McLeish has admitted he will have to tell Argentinean starlet Mauro Zarate to stop diving if he is to survive in The ...

news Schultz Returns to Arkansas As Interim Diving Coach
Former coach Dale Schultz has returned as the interim diving coach for the University of Arkansas swimming and diving team, head swim coach Jeff Poppell ...

news Overcoming fears leads to diver
In becoming the first Big 12 diving champion from MU, junior Kendra Melnychuk also solidified her place as one of the nation’s ...

news Swiss man dies while cave-diving
By LISE FISHER A man visiting the United States from Switzerland died Monday while cave-diving in Gilchrist County. The body of Mark Fyvie, 35, ...

news Diving in hungry for more
By PHIL GIANFICARO Their bellies were empty, but Whitmire's mom's dinner table was full. Full of mouth-watering ziti, tasty bread, Caesar salad, ...

news Chilly plunge sets new dive record
Nelson | Thursday, 13 March 2008 COLD AMBITION: Richard Harris in a self-portrait taken during his record-setting dive in the Pearse ...

news Utah Diving to Compete at Zone Regionals
The University of Utah diving team will send two athletes to the 2008 Diving Zone `E' Regionals this weekend. The Zone meet will be held in ...

news Three Divers Prepare for Upcoming Diving Meet
Freshman Courtney Forcucci was voted Diver of the Meet at the C-USA Swimming and Diving Championships after winning the 1-meter event. ...

news Air Force Set to Host Zone E Diving Regionals
The Air Force Academy will be the host institution for the 2008 NCAA Zone E Diving Regionals, to be held March 13-15 in Oklahoma City, Okla. ...

news Cost worries over EU dive-suit laws
The costs can amount to £4000 per style, and may contribute to a price hike in diving suits. A European safety directive called CE 14225 has recently come ...

news Women’s diving heads to the Zone
10, 2008 The Michigan women’s diving team heads to Columbus this weekend for the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships. This meet serves as a regional qualifying ...

news Olympic diving hopeful back in learner pool
The pair recently finished third in the 10 metre synchronised diving at a FINA World Cup event in China, guaranteeing Great Britain a place in the final at ...

news Mexico's Pemex Diving Into Deeper Waters
Mexico's state-owned oil company says it is developing its deepest underwater natural gas field ever. Developing the Holok-Temoa ...

news Triple, diving grab pay off for Pagan
Outfielder Angel Pagan strengthened his bid to break camp with the club on Tuesday with a two-run triple in ...

news Polish woman dies after diving in Dwejra
A Polish woman died some time after she found herself in difficulty while diving with a group of people in Dwejra, Gozo, at around 1pm yesterday, ...

news Restore diving board
The 13-year-old schoolboy from Plymouth has taken headlines world-wide for his diving exploits. Last year he became the BBC's Young Sports Personality of ...

news Robertson takes diving case to Parliament
However, The Daily Telegraph can disclose that of the 171 diving facilities listed on Sport England's Active Places database, just under 40 per cent are ...

news Lara not scared of diving underwater
And the first one is overcoming the fear of diving underwater. While she prepares to do her first ever avant-garde film Devdas with Sudhir Mishra, ...

news Diving: More on board for the Olympics
A field of 68 men and 68 women will make up the two men’s and two women’s individual diving events in the Beijing Games. With the inclusion of the three ...

news Calling Local Divers Of Miri Diving Sites
By Achong Tanjong Bandar Seri Begawan - Local divers can now look forward to a diving programme called "Promote and Clean Miri Diving Sites" to be held in ...

news Diving into pool construction
As early as June, we hope to have classes and open swim periods. And if we get good and lucky, we will have a couple of summer programs that kids can dive into!

news Diving for treasure
Even though some of these athletes are too young to make the 2008 Beijing Games (the minimum age for diving is 14), they harbour dreams of winning Olympic ...

news Walled Lake Central graduate diving
So Tigers diving coach Leslie Hasselbach didn't think much about it when Fura was worn out after workouts or breathing heavily after runs. ...

news Inquest into sky-diving deaths
A Coronial Inquest will begin today into a series of sky-diving deaths near York, east of Perth. The Skydive Express drop-zone near York has been the scene ...

news Diving into the Russian market
Scuba diving is now one of the world’s fastest-growing and most accessible adventure sports activities. ...

news They were ducking and diving
When the dodging, ducking and diving was over, the team named Major League had won. Major League, consisting of students PJ Mullin, Tim MacLellan, ...

news East Grand Rapids diving coach stepping down
When the Division 3 state swimming and diving championships end Saturday afternoon at the Holland Aquatics Center, ...

news Scottish FA want video evidence on diving
FIFA will be urged this weekend to allow video evidence to be used to punish players who dive. The annual meeting of the International FA Board, ...

news Diving Into Unique Museums
By Chung Ah-young Museums are thought of as a cultural barometer of a country and at the same time as boring educational places far from excitement. ...

news Swimming & Diving Insider
Three of the four 2007 team champions defended their titles over the weekend at the District 10 championships at Penn State Behrend's Junker Center. ...

news Diving back into painful memory
We supplied our own boat, pickup and diving gear. Most dives you never forget, especially if it's a small child or one of your own. ...

news Diving Deep into Southwest Airlines
By Kelly Carr By Kanupriya Vashisht By Jonathan Higuera By Kelly Carr By Reynolds Center Staff After seeing a photo of Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly ...

news Guilford diving coach retires after 40 years
By Brenda Young Longtime Guilford diving coach Gene Cassioppi has retired, signaling an end to the most successful era in Guilford diving history. ...

news Fatal bite spotlights dangers of shark diving
But some say the search for a thrill has gone to far: baiting the water with bloody fish parts, diving without cages or protective gear and getting up close ...

news Tourism means money and map presence
This month, however, the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center will host the 2008 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships from March 27-29. ...

news Utah Swimming and Diving
The Mountain West Conference announced its Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving all-conference teams today. Utah landed 16 individuals on the team along with ...

news Diving dogs will make splash at Sportsmen's Expo
Discover the latest in cynosports (dog sports) at the International Sportsmen's Expo. In addition to camping, hunting and fishing demonstrations, ...

news Diving into the Russian market
By Rowena C. Burgos MANILA, Philippines—Scuba diving is now one of the world’s fastest-growing and most accessible adventure sports activities. ...

news Aztec Swimming and Diving
were named to the all-Mountain West Conference swimming and diving team for their performances at the 2008 championship meet last week, the league office ...

news Princeton Wins Women's Swimming and Diving
The Princeton Tigers successfully defended their Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving dual-meet championship in 2007-08, going a perfect 7-0 in the league ...

news Diving officials rule out need to raise difficulty
But Chinese diving officials insist they don't need to increase the degrees of difficulty to ensure their team's success and need only to improve the ...

news SHS swimming and diving team still alive
Shannon Tessier has worked with youngsters of all abilities throughout her career as a diving coach and therefore knows that some teams require more ...

news Heimbrock wins BL diving title
Shepaug's Cody Heimbrock won the Berkshire League diving title with a league record score of 361.40 at the Northwest YMCA in Winsted on Sunday. ...

news Into the deep Interest in scuba diving surges
It's truly otherworldly," says Jim Allan, a maritime archaeologist at St. Mary's College in Moraga who spends much of his year underwater, diving off ...

news Naples' Austin earns top finish in diving
That was what most of the 14 local swimmers that went to this weekends New York State Public High School Athletic Association swimming and diving ...

news Pac-10 Diving Championships: Final Day
UCLA freshman diver Laura Winn, who hit her face on the diving board during the preliminary rounds of three meter on Friday afternoon was taken to the ...

news Benedetti completes diving sweep for ASU
Arizona State’s Micky Benedetti finished his sweep of the Pac-10 Diving Championships at Federal Way, Wash., by defending his platform title Saturday. ...

news Dutchmen swimming & diving
The Union men's swimming & diving team closed out competition at the UNYSCSA Championships Saturday. The Dutchmen finished fourth in the 15 ...

news Government criticised over diving board plunge
By Gareth A Davies The Government was criticised by the Great Britain Diving Federation this weekend and thousands of demonstrators campaigned against pool ...

news Diving Bell' sentimental without overdoing it
We have one in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." It is wonderful: a rhapsodic adaptation of a memoir, a visual marvel that wraps its subject in screen ...

news Dumpster Diving with RH Donnelley Corporation
RH Donnelley Corporation's (Public, NYSE:RHD) one year loss in share price is worse than the Subprime mess of banks and bond insurers, RHD shares are now ...

news Roberson Nabs Second in 1-Meter Diving
The Drexel men's swimming & diving team completed its second day of action at the Colonial Athletic Association championships. Junior Jake Roberson earned ...

news China presents all diving stars in FINA
China has presented an all-star line-up in the FINA Diving Grand Prix Shenzhen leg which opened here on Friday. ...

news Canada posts two top-10 finishes at diving
Canadians Sabrina Beaupre and Veronique Lemieux finished fourth in the women's three-metre synchro event at a Grand Prix diving ...


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