“God, help me one more time,” pleads the lobsterman, Edmundo Stanley Antonio. “Accompany me in this water.”
There are a lot of worries bundled into that simple appeal. That the makeshift air hose he’s tethered to doesn’t spring a leak. That the air compressor at the surface doesn’t fail. That his innate awareness of distance and time he doesn’t have a watch or a depth gauge is better than the time he surfaced too quickly from about 150 feet down and got battered by decompression sickness, which left him partly paralyzed for a year.
Mr. Stanley, 33, still feels pain in his back and his heart when he dives. A doctor has repeatedly told him not to go in the water again, warning the next dive could kill him. His wife begs him to stop; she’s already lost her brother and a son-in-law in diving accidents.
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SORE LOSERS: Gallery in Spain banishes popular painting that shows moment Spanish ship is defeated by English privateers
Madrid Naval Museum banishes its most popular painting because it depicts a Spanish defeat . but who are the real losers, wonders Cristina Hodgson
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IT seems that some people can’t take defeat – even hundreds of years after the fact.
A painting depicting the brave but ultimately doomed final battle of a Spanish warship against British privateers has been removed from public display at the Madrid Naval Museum.
The reason? Museum directors think it ‘disrespectful’ to the defeated captain to show the losing fight when it had gloriously beaten the Brits in three previous actions.
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