Zurich Herald, 1954-08-12, Page 3Un a*!er .ate Hunt
Going underwater goggling in
the Red Sea presents a relnark-
1 bly abrupt change in scenery.
recall particularly a place some
thirty lrliles south, of Chardaqa
*ailed Sharks' Bay where this
change impressed me the most.
.,fit one moment I stood On the
. hot sands of the barren desert;
the next moment 1 found my-
self ..in one of the most beautiful
laces I had ever seen—a re-
freshingly cool place, a submar-
ine epral garden of brilliant col-
ours and teeming with life.
In Sharks' Bay the desert ter.
Min drops suddenly beneath the
ilea and is transformed into a
'thert fringing reef. My first look
at this unusually gorgeous reef
is still a vivid picture in my
anind. 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
'very spot en the reef was over-
grown with corals Of the most
graceful, delicate . and,., unsual
kerns. 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
:had 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
another like a band of escaped
convicts with black and white
stripes on their bodies and pel-
vic fins edged in sapphire. These
three types of damsel fishes all
:headed into branched corals
when I approached them. Here
they could be captured by mere -
tat breaking off • a branch of the
floral 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
ea basses, coppery squirrel fish,
lack and r green moray• eels.
Itichoale vf'tiw li5kered, yellow and
pink goatfishes went by on the
ledge below, their delicate chin
barbels feeling in the sand. Stur-
e
on, butterfly, balloons, and
dex fishes swam all about me.
g green parrot fish, keeping a
god distance away, went by eye -
g roe suspiciously while stop -
ng periodically to chew .off
unks Of coral with their strong
'beaks" that made an audible
touching sound. -- From "Lady
'With a Spear," by Eugenie Clark,
DISAGREEMENT
A woman was writing to her
son, congratulating him on his
engagement. "Your father and 1
.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
;tnan. She brings out all that is
good in him, and helps to sup.
press the evil,"
Then fa was a short post-
seript in a different handwriting:
"Your mother has gone for a
stamp. Stay single, you dam
bratty -Cake — Yankee catcher
Yogi Berra, left, and First Base.
tabun •bill Skowron try to violate
jig rule that'two objects can't
;ii5ceupy the 'Caine space, as they
booth go after a high pop foul
(tering a Yariks-'!`ger game in
New York. Berra made the catch
despite all the `help.
elw 4 Hours in Davy Jones Locker
Wearing:skinktight rubber suit,
of the At►a.ntic, Qcean near Key Largo,
The rubber suit helped the 26»year-old
feat, Only food Fisher had was soup,
Ed Fisher kept the fish company en the floor
Fla„ for 24 hours, a record for underwater endurance,
diver retain his body warmth on his record-breaking
and raw fish he caught while'perforrning his stunt.
we; Miei*Ma
Fisher reaches for anchor, left, lowered in case the current gets rough, and at right, uses a
spear -gun to hunt game an ocean floor.
Wearing a skin-tight rubber suit, Fisher takes time out to eat, left,' and then chisels his initial,
into a big carat formation.
Girl Locked in
With Deadly
Snakes,
One sunny afternoon last
March, the gay citizens of Bail-
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
ease 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 lung-
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 -
teat her head. Rut the serpent
continued to attack her relent-
lessly, and the Indian viper, ally•
ing 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 an 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
lead moved on to another town.
And among them was that of
Miss Monica, the snake charm -
eta
Concealing her wounds be.
heath a layer of pink grease-
paint, she lay in her glass case,
still wearing her wax -doll smile
while she stroked and caressed
a black python and an Indian
wiper.. ,
Contests ;pie —
And yatherwase
Even if you never find a
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 -
rolling. Ile beat other contest-
ants by rolling a forty -gallon
Will Help --External Affairs Min-
ister Lester Pearson, of Canada,
says his nafion is ready to join
India and Poland in supervising
the cease-fire in Indo-China. 1 -le
says the acceptance of this role
will not change Canada's policy
of favouring a southeast Asia
;security pact,
wine barrel — filled with water
-ten miles in seven and a half-
hour,.
alfhours.
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 $150,000
prize offered by the Academy
of Science in Vienna to anyone
who can ' settle this abstruse
mathematical problem. A thou-
sand solutions a year have been
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 passibility 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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The poor poet was complaining
to his friend. `Burglars broke
into my room last night," he
said.
"What happened?"
"They searched through every
room," the poet said, "and then
left five dollars on the bureau."
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