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DIVE FOR BOAT -
LS WATER
The winter-gray waters of Possum Kingdom lake
aren't inviting to even the doughtiest of swimmers
this time of year. But four. _ ivers from Fort
Worth make ready for a chilly dip, as a favor to
zoo curator Lawrence Curtis, who says he needs a
meofor one of his fish tanks at the acquarium.
He said he needed a delapidlated old boat to liven
up the scenery, and the Inland Divers Associationq volunteered to dig one up --
Mrs. leta Bebout
wife of American Airlines pilot, Russ Bebout, o
herself out in her neoprene rubber diving suit,
while Ton Davis, a formen at Convair, dusts talcum
' on another Convair employe, Billie Huddleston, asecretary at the aircraft plant.
The suits are
skintight, and specially insulated for such mid-
winter acquatics as this.
The rubber is porous;
a thin
'1 layer of water that leaks into the suit
is warmed by the diver's body, and serves as1
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Dive for boat], script, January 24, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862038/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.