Notes from Day 3 of the Great Underground Flood:
Even though it's "darker than the darkest night you've everseen," and they wouldn't be able to see their hands in front of theirfaces, the divers keep their eyes closed while they're down under.It's a natural reaction when you're working by touch.
"Time after time, I'd come up from a dive - and only thenrealize that my eyes had been closed all along," says John Lawton, aveteran diver who is now a vice president with The Brand Companies,Inc., one of two firms sending brave men into the Chicago River tohelp seal the most famous black hole on Earth.
The idea of being deep under water and totally in the dark …
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