¡Cuba, sí! He and four compadres left Cuba one night in a twenty-foot boat powered by a five-horsepower motor. The motor quit on the second day of the voyage, and the men drifted, lost, for …
Scuba gear necessary for the study of underwater biology was invented just forty-five years ago.
Posted January 8, 1987
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