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' 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, fhursdey, September 12, 1953 F Diver Goes Swimming To Relax By BRUCE LEVETT VANCOUVER (CP) -- Phil Nuytten, 23, is a diver. ths good job--"It pays $145 a A Wea dirty job--"You work up to your waist in mud. It you can see your hand in front of your face, it's clear water." And it's a dangerous job-- "Sometimes you work under great pressure. More than one diver has been buried in his hel- met." So what does Phil Nuytten do for relaxation? He goes spear-fishing. He dives to old wrecks in remote places and hauls up artefacts of museums. | And he wrestles octopi. It's a) sport that's almost exclusive to the west coast of Canada and| the United States. | "In this area you have the) fJargest, most accessible octo-) pi in the world. | But don't flee the beaches--! "The octopus is a real shy| type." | Phil and his fellow wrestlers work in teams of three if they're| wrestling without air tanks; two) will do if they're wearing self-| contained underwater breathing) apparatus. | DOESN'T USE KNIFE "We look for an area where the bottom is disturbed and where there are broken crab) shells. Then we look for a fissure} in the rocks."" | The diver must hover above) the rock slit, out of sight of the| octopus within, and squirt a copper sulphate solution into) the crack. When the octopus) squirts back, the diver knows) he's on the right track. | "The sulphate irritates him. When he can't stand it any) longer, he jets himself out." The diver considers it un- sporting to use a knife. He) grabs for the octopus's oval- shaped head and punches a) hand into one of the many gill openings. The gills clamp tight and the arms--please, Phil pleads, don't call them tenta- eles--wrap around the diver. The hand inside the octopus/ grips vital organs, © | "This begins to paralyse the) octopus, You push the sea bed as hard as you can with your legs and head for the surface with the octopus wrapped around you. You land him, weigh him, measure the arm spread. "Then we usually chuck the octopus overboard, He recovers| goon." | POINTS FOR WEIGHT Where does the competition come in? The wrestlers are @warded one point a pound if they're working with tanks. It's two points a pound "if you're working skinny." 'There's a practical side to all) "Halibut fishermen pay up to| $1 a pound for octopus. They tell us it's the best bait in the world for halibut and they) mever get enough." | And in some circles, octopus) is a great delicacy. "You cut the arms into six-/ inch sections and pound them with a steak mallet. Then you) parboil the sections for 20 min-| utes and cut them into one-inch) cubes. They look like cucumber. | With this, you make the most) delicious chowder in the world."| Phil Nuytten plays hard--but he works hard, too, in scuba gear around the sucking intakes) of pulp mills or in hard hat,| with cutting torches and explo-) sives clearing debris from har-| bor bottoms. | RECALLS TERROR j He and his crew--Phil runs| his own diving firm--were in the mill-race waters of the Sec- ond Narrows one June day in| 1958 exactly 14 minutes after} the unfinished Second Narrows Bridge collapsed. | Eighteen persons died and 20) were injured. One of the dead! was a diver. | "T'll' never volunteer for body-/ Tecovery work again," Phil says. "There were bodies twisted) ail through the wreckage and there was blood in the water. "T'll never forget that crane) Operator. He was trapped in the) cab with water up to his face, breathing what little air was trapped under the roof. He was' screaming, out of his mind. | "Explosives would have been| the only way to get him out and we didn't have any with us. We had to swim away and leave him. to see what we could do| for the others." | Since then, Phil has trained 36 Vancouver firemen in the art of underwater rescue and re- covery. Canadian Press Directors Meet | WINNIPEG (CP) -- Directors, of The Canadian Press held' their semi-annual meeting here' Tuesday to discuss affairs of the national news co-operative.. Four changes of .perscnnel in those representing individual newspapers in the CP member- reported: to Lorenzo Pare; Montreal Ga- zette from Charles H. I ers to H. J. Larkin; Nanaimo Free Press from Wm, J. Lupton to C. W. Ramsden; Prince George Citizen from Dory Thacker to a. £E. | HONEST CAL'S 1s INTRODUCING "poe 9 TV Here is model 32T41 one of the finest in the '64 line SPECIAL PRICE 219 (with your trade) SHOP 10 .n-10 Pou. 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