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Show O Women hava been invading the once exclusive ex-clusive fields of the lordly lord-ly male's endeavors at a fast pace during the past several years. The latest is the invasion of the deep sea diving profession, which leaves very few places where a man can be alone. E. R. Cross (left) kisses Jere Lee Cross just after she had completed a dive of 152 feet, believed be-lieved to be the world's record for women. . s r" . " JSC!,- i V " L jjfj .1 Li ' " -saw,. " " ;.. , ' -vw.-..-. . I 1 sl 1 r "j r-. . , ' 't . i" i - ' " v 1 l - ! V ' V , i f 1 $ K 1 W,M' ' ( O Mrs. Cross (above) adds some 160 pounds to her own 100 when she dons full diving regalia. In the diving school operated oper-ated by her husband, Mrs. Cross (left) gets a lesson from hubby on the decompression de-compression tank and the pressure gauge he holds. Mrs. Cross first became interested in diving about three years ago. In heavy diving gear and helmet, Mrs. Cross (right) leaves the barge for a shallow practice dive. Her husband, a former navy diver who now runs a deep sea diving school in Los Angeles, trained her for the recent record dive. Her record was achieved after three years of taking pressure tests, shallow dives and studying the reactions of her husband's hus-band's male diving students. t ! K . y ' ' - i ' I S ' i " V ' H ? - - x i V , . i I J (5 At left Mrs. Cross examines a knife that all divers wear when they are working in the deep waters. The diver is a dummy that stands in the lobby of the school operated by her husband. The knife is a weapon for defense in case the diver is attacked by a deep water creature. Such attacks are infrequent, in-frequent, however. It is a handy instrument to free divers from tangled ropes and ocean growth. Notice the heavy belt of weights which divers use to keep them submerged. Q Eternally feminine despite the fact she has just set a record in a field once exclusive exclu-sive of man's endeavor, Mrs. Cross (right) does a powder-puff job on her nose before donning the heavy helmet for a practice dive. Her brother-in-law patiently waits to adjust the helmet. Now that she has the title of the world's champion woman deep sea diver, Mrs. Cross admits she has no idea of what to do with it. , V " 1 f . - - . - l K i : i " : - ; , t i V , i w v ' ? " , ', x::,x.x L:...w. V' " ' f I . i ... i ... .. ' i , , J.' , Q The champ (left) compares one of her backless dress shoes with the ponderous 17 pound diver's shoe she uses in her explorations explora-tions of the ocean floor. She reports there is a certain amount of satisfaction in proving prov-ing that deep sea diving isn't something that only a man can handle. |