By Sunday, though, Mr. Libert, who could not dive himself this week because of health problems caused at least in part by the more than 1,000 dives he made over years looking for the Griffin, confessed he could scarcely sleep or eat because he was so worried about the excavation.
With a running start he dove over himself, without first cutting off the excess wire hanging down, visible in photographs kept in their Stasi file.
To stock the larder of his first restaurant on the Big Island, he had to resort to all sorts of improvisations, diving himself for sea urchins, recruiting aging flower children to grow vegetables for him, even persuading the driver of a laundry truck to deliver baby lambs raised by a rancher in a distant corner of the island.
Following an accident in which a tourist's bungee cord snapped during a dive off the bridge, Tourism Minister Gavin Lubinda visited the site of the incident and took the dive himself, The Mirror reports.
"Every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself," reads the manifesto at davidlynchfoundation.org.org
"Every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us," he writes.
The director of Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and Twin Peaks has been "diving within" himself on a daily basis for 34 years, ever since he was taught TM by a woman who he once recalled looked like Doris Day.
"Every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us," Lynch said in a message on his website.
Then Wellens dived over himself on 11 minutes before getting in again just four minutes later, Lomax kicking all three conversions.
Prone to introspection and self-questioning, Alex dove deep within himself to come to terms with his surreal life.
