The Seaforth News, 1954-08-12, Page 7LF/etre
Underwater Binet
going underwater goggling in
the Red Sea presents a remark-
ably abrupt change in scenery.
I recall particularly a place some
thirty miles south. Of Chardaga
trailed Sharks' Bay where this
...lenge impressed me the most.
At one Inoment I stood Ora the
hot sands of the barren desert;
the next moment I found my-
self in one of the most beautiful
places I had ever seen—a re-
freshingly cool place, a submar-
ine coral garden of brilliant col-
eul'e and teeming with life.
In Sharks' Bay the desert ter-
rain drops suddenly beneath the
Ilea and is transformed into a
Alert fringing reef. My first look
at this unusually gorgeous reef
is still a vivid picture in my
Mind. The edge of the first shelf
of the reef dropped down at a
sharp angle to a ledge about
twenty feet wide some twenty-
five feet below me, This ledge
in turn sloped off into a deep,
richly blue water, toward a bot-
tom I could not see. Almost
revery spot On the reef was over-
grown with corals of the most
graceful, delicate and unsual
:terms. Some grew like clusters
of pink and lavender flowers,
others were round and solid with
winding channels on their sur-
faces making them look like the
denuded, convoluted brains of
mammals—small ones like the
'brains of marmosets, monstrous
ones that seemed to come from
the heads of Goliaths. Some of
the coral grew like branches of
a tree or antlers Of a deer, some
bad straight surfaces like table
tops standing on a single centre
leg. One type of coral sat in
little sandy patches on the ledge
below looking exactly like the
heads of yellow mushrooms... .
.And you could see a thousand
fishes at a glance. There were
dozens of varieties of small fish-
es, glittering sea gems that lived
In close association with the cor-
als: a school of hundreds of little
emeralds, another of rubies, and
mother like a band of escaped
Convicts with black and white
atripes on their bodies and pel-
vic fins edged in sapphire. These
three types of damsel fishes all
beaded into branched corals
when I approached them. Here
they could be captured by mere-
7611Ribt.rbreaking off a branch Of the
',Mal and shaking it over a small
meshed net. But tiny topaz and
opal blennies crept into deeper
crevices where enemies could
nOt reach them,
The heads of larger fishes
peered out from alcoves in the
reef: yellow -and -brown -speckled
tea basses, coppery squirrel fish,
black and green moray eels.
Ohools of whiskered, yellow and
n:r k goatfishes went by on the
dge below, their delicate chin
barbels feeling in the sand. Stur-
geon, butterfly, balloons, and
II fishes swam all about me.
g green parrot fish, keeping a
geed distance away, went by eye -
lag me auspiciously while stop -
'Fg periodically to chew off
unks Of coral with their strong
beaks" that made an audible
�1'uthing sound. — From "Lady
—ea-4%th a Spear," by Eugenie Clark,
DISAGREEMENT
A woman was writing to her
son, congratulating him on his
engagement. "Your father and I
rejoice in your happiness, my
darling boy," she wrote. "It has
long been our dearest wish that
you should marry some good
woman. A good woman is
heaven's most precious gift to
man. She brings out all that is
good in him, and helps to sup-
press the evil."
Then there was a short post-
ecript in a different handwriting:
"Your mother has gone for a
stamp. Stay single, you dam
fool."
e'er ty-Cake — Yankee catcher
'Vogt Berra, left, and First Base -
scan Sill Skowron try to violate
the rule that fwa objects can't
occupy the same space, as they
both go after a high pop foul
during a Yanks -tiger .game in
Now York, Serra made the catch
despite all the help,
Spends 24 Hours in Davy Jones k Locker
Wearing a skin -light rubber suit, Ed Fisher kept the fish company on the floor
of the Atlantic Ocean near Key Largo, Fla., for 24 hours, o record for underwater endurance.
The rubber suit helped the 26 -year-old diver retain his body warmth on his record-breaking
feat. Only food Fisher had was soup, and raw fish he caught while performing his stunt.
lFisl er reaches for anchor, left, lowered in case the current gets rough, and at right uses a
pear -gun to hunt game on ocean floor,
Wearing a skin-tight rubber suit, Fisher takes time out to eat, left, and then chisels his initiate
into a big coral formation,
Girl Locked in
With Deadly
Snakes
One sunny afternoon last
March, the gay citizens of Baii-
leul were celebrating the riotous
festival of Mardi Gras. Surging
through the streets, a procession
Of dancing figures in masks and
fancy dress twirled and capered
round the giant effigy of King
Carnival.
Suddenly shrieks of terror rose
from where the booths of travel-
ling salesmen were grouped. But
the revellers round King Carni-
val's effigy drowned the fright-
ed cries with their laughter.
One of the travelling booths
was a simple canvas tent, fram-
ed by painted posters announc-
ing . . . Miss Monica, .snake
charmer. Inside it, illuminated by
a powerful spotlight, was a glass
case enclosing a lovely girl in
a bathing costume.
Spectators were crowding
round the case when suddenly
they recoiled in horror ... hush-
ed. For two snakes — a huge
huge black python and an In-
dian viper—were seen sliding
towards the girl.
Calmly, she began to caress
the python, which suddenly
awoke from its torpor and hing-
ed at the viper nearby, As the
viper struck back, the specta-
tors stood petrified.
Without hesitating, the young
girl tried to separate the hiss-
ing, swaying snakes. She seized
the python in her bare hands.
It wriggled convulsively . , , and
turned on her. Before she had
time to ward off the attack the
python had darted a lightning
blow at her face,
Miss Monica managed to pro-
tect her head. But the serpent
continued to attack her relent-
lessly, and the Indian viper, ally-
ing
llying itself with its former enemy,
joined in and planted its veno-
mous fangs in the +high of the
young girl.
A doctor, called in haste, ad-
ministered sin antitoxin, saving
the girl's life, though her un-
protected body bore the marks
of no fewer than 52 snake bites.
Next day the travelling booths
had moved On to another town.
And among them was that of
Miss Monica, the snake charm-
er.
Concealing her wounds be-
neath. a laSet Of pink itrease-
paint, she lay in her glass case,
still wearing her wax -doll smile
while she stroked and caressed
a black python and an Indian
viper...
Contests Wise
,—
And Otherwise
Even if you never find e
needle in a haystack, you can, at
any rate, have a lot of fun look-
ing. A hundred excited women
searched frantically for a two-
inch gold needle in a two -ton
haystack in New Zealand re-
cently.
At the end of three hectic
minutes and twenty-six seconds,
the winner screamed in triumph,
held the needle aloft — and won
a sewing -machine.
It was just the latest twist in
publicity's progress, an amusing
sporting event that drew thou-
sands of spectators,
In Amsterdam a cash prize is
given every year to the man
who can make a pipeful of
tobacco last the longest. Recent-
ly, eighty veteran smokers took
part. The winner kept his pipe
alight for ninety and a half
minutes. A Frenchman won a
prize the other day for barrel-
• roiling. He beatother contest-
ants by rolling. a forty -gallon
Will Help—External Affairs Min-
ister Lester Pearson, of Canada,
says his nation is ready to join
Indict and Poland in supervising
the cease-fire in Indo-China. fie
says the acceptance of this !ale
will not change Canada's policy
of favouring a southeast .Asia
M CUI ity part,
wine barrel — filled with water
—ten miles in seven and a half
hours.
Some of the biggest money
prizes, however, involve brain-
work. Can you solve the theo-
rem of Fermat? Most of the
world's present-day atom scien-
tists have tried for a $160,000
prize offered by the Academy
of Science in Vienna to anyone
who can settle this abstruse
mathematical problem. A thou-
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rolling in, All have been wrong.
An American salesman recent-
ly bequeathed $35,000 to the per-
son who best answered a riddle,
"Why does the four -lettered
word `joke' define and answer
all the sociological meaning of
man and earth?" Unable to see
the joke, his son has begun a
lawsuit, claiming that the will is
incapable of performance.
Several American museums,
too, are offering $25,000 to any-
one who discovers the well-pre-
served carcase of a mastodon, or
prehistoric elephant frozen solid
in ice. Most provocative of all,
the French Academy of Science
has $15,000 ready for the first
person to send a signal to any
of the planets and receive a re-
ply.
The prize was left to the
Academy as a legacy by a
wealthy widow sixty years ago
and now the possibility of a re-
ply by radar -echo has sharpened
the keenness of scientists.
Meanwhile, interest accruing
on the sum is allowed to accu-
mulate for five years, and is
then given to the scientist who
has added most to our know-
ledge of the solar system.
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"They searched through every
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