Both shows document artists — one a broad, horizontal take of Opie's own artistic community and the other a narrow but deep dive into one entertainer's life via her home and her stuff.
A first attack around 08 00 on outposts of the northern sector was easily repulsed, as the Germans had to advance over a narrow dike through the inundations, despite supporting air strikes by dive bombers.
The hatches are narrow, but we dived slowly into the black, murky holds, and I was startled when a school of tiny blue fish exploded into a burst of color in the beam of my flashlight.
At the same time, the water level fell almost three feet, so that with the sudden narrowing, plus the dive, the placid surface was transformed, for the twenty yards or so that it took to get through the tunnels of the arches, into a wild rush.
The unsettling matter of mortality seems ever-present in the Holland Bar, a smoke-choked dive so narrow that you couldn't fall down drunk if you tried.
Even with Klim's opening split -- which, because it was a leadoff split, with a start from the blocks, also counted as an open world record -- Thorpe had only a narrow edge as he dived into the pool ahead of Hall, the 1996 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 freestyle.
From warm, shallow water, perfect for beginners, to the infamous Lantern Point, a 50m dive complete with narrow chimneys and tunnels, Dive Malta (00 356 2136 9994; divemalta.com.mt) offers all levels the chance to hunt out sites; from £27 per dive.
The film… In the narrow space above his perennial dive bar Botanica, Mark Connell has enlisted the intriguing chef Ignacio Mattos to liven up the place.
By Shauna Lyon In the narrow space above his perennial dive bar Botanica, Mark Connell has enlisted the intriguing chef Ignacio Mattos to liven up the place.
Back inside the levee walls we negotiate the roads under a series of elevated highways – some double, some triple-deckers – and dive into the narrow streets of Wanhua, one of the city's oldest districts.
