Dottie Fraser, a rare woman in the world of freediving and scuba diving on the male-dominated West Coast in the 1940s and 50s, who is often credited as the first woman to be certified as a scuba instructor in the United States, died February 8 at her home in Long Beach, California. She was 99 years old.

Her death was announced by her husband Cyril May.

Miss Frazier has spent most of her adventurous life in the water, making her first dives as a child in Southern California. She seemed to have as many stories about diving as she did diving.

There was a time when she came face to face with a shark in the waters off the coast of Mexico. One day, a large seal wanted to take a fish she was bringing back to her boat and crashed into her, breaking four ribs. When she broke her leg skiing and made herself a special wetsuit with a zipper from ankle to chest so that she could roll into it and thus continue to dive with a broken limb.

Even motherhood did not stop her from spending long hours in the water.

“A friend of mine had a flag that she waved when she needed me to get back to shore to breastfeed my youngest son,” she said in an interview for Tim Ecott’s Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World ( 2001).

Ms. Fraser was already an accomplished freediver and scuba diver when she began scuba diving in the early 1950s, when scuba equipment first became available in the United States. She was initially unimpressed with the outfit.

“I thought it was for sissies,” she told Neutral Buoyancy. “For people who couldn’t hold their breath long enough to eat dinner.”

But she was imbued with the new technology and in 1955 tried to enroll in a diving instructor certification course in Los Angeles County, paying the required fee. She was sent a letter saying the course was for men only, but when she broke the news to friend and respected fellow diver Jim Christiansen, he asked, “Did they refund your check?”

“When I told him no, he said, ‘Just be ready; I’ll pick you up,” she said on The League of Extraordinary Divers podcast in 2016.

She received her certification and soon began teaching others to scuba dive. Her first class, a group of male doctors, refused to be taught by a woman. She convinced reluctant students to take the first part of her diving course and see what they thought of her teaching. All of them returned for the second part of the snorkeling.

“I was proud of my first class,” she wrote in her autobiography, Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Diving Pioneer Dottie Fraser (2019), “and of my new career as the first woman to become a scuba instructor in the world. “.

Dorothy Adell Rader was born July 16, 1922 in Long Beach to Francis and Laura (Davis) Rader, who lived a block away from the Pacific Ocean. Her father owned sailboats and motor boats and started taking her on the water with him when she was just a baby.

“I managed to fall overboard at least once a day,” she wrote in her book, “but my dad said that I did it on purpose whenever he said, “No, you can’t go into the water.”

After her parents divorced when she was 3, she lived with her father on a 28-foot skiff for several years. Her grandparents and aunts also helped raise her.

“I never knew who would look after me next,” she wrote. “I think that’s one of the reasons I became so independent at an early age.”

She often told the story of how her father talked her into diving seriously. When she was 6 years old and anchored off Catalina Island with him, he called her to retrieve the coffee pot, which he dropped 15 feet deep while cleaning it. (He claimed he couldn’t do it himself because he had a bad cold.) She was already a capable swimmer, but didn’t venture to that depth. With the support of her father, she dived and found a pot.

“Shortly after that dive, I was diving to depths I couldn’t believe, collecting shells and rescuing things,” she told the League of Extraordinary Divers. “And then my dad gave me some copies.”

Her father gave her a makeshift mask and fins, and she learned to spearfish and dive for lobster and abalone, often catching lunch and occasionally taking orders from the locals. People also hired her to recover purses and other things that they had dropped into the sea.

She graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1939 and spent a year at a secretarial college. She married Don Gat in 1940 and they had two sons, Darrell and Donald. During World War II, she worked for Douglas Aircraft. She and Mr Gat divorced after the war.

She married Jake Fraser in 1951 and had two more sons, David and Daniel; this marriage also ended in divorce. She married Mr May in 1973. He survived her along with her sons David, Daniel and Donald and seven grandchildren.

In addition to her work as a scuba diving instructor, Ms. Fraser, a member of the Women’s Diver Hall of Fame, ran Penguin’s dive shop in Long Beach for 15 years beginning in the 1950s, and also designed and sold wetsuits and drysuits. She also learned to dive with a helmet—the one used in underwater commercial work—but didn’t pursue career opportunities because, at about five feet tall and weighing no more than 100 pounds, she found the equipment too bulky and restrictive.

She was energetic and adventurous even in her 90s. At 93, she went on a zipline. In 2019, she finally sold the last of her motorcycles. In an interview with Neutral Buoyancy, she noted that longevity seems to be related to diving.

“Many real divers have lived to a ripe old age,” she said. “Being underwater affects your spirit.”

Former UFC heavyweight champion Kane Velazquez has been charged with attempted murder after “shooting a man in San Jose”

• Former UFC heavyweight champion Kane Velázquez faces charges of attempted murder in California after a fatal shooting in the San Jose area
• Velázquez was detained without bail until his first court hearing on Wednesday
• Police announced the shooting near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Avenue on Monday, before revealing the arrest of Velazquez on Tuesday morning
• One injured man was rushed to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
• Velazquez, 39, is a two-time UFC heavyweight champion after winning the title in 2010 before losing it in 2011 and regaining it from 2012 to 2015.
• He retired in 2019 after a 26-second defeat by current heavyweight champion Francis Nganu on February 17, 2019. He has been fighting in the WWE ever since.
• Velázquez has trained other fighters at his longtime gym in California

from Alex Ruskin, sports news editor for Dailymail.com

Published: 16:15 GMT, March 1, 2022 | Updated: 20:58 GMT, March 1, 2022

Former UFC heavyweight champion Kane Velazquez has been charged with attempted murder in California after a fatal shooting in San Jose.

Velázquez was detained without bail until his first court hearing on Wednesday.

San Jose police announced the shooting near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Avenue on Monday night before revealing Velazquez’s arrest on Twitter today.

“Cain Velazquez was the suspect arrested yesterday in connection with the incident,” San Jose police said in a tweet. “He was sentenced in Santa Clara County Jail for attempted murder.”

“The motive and circumstances surrounding this incident are still being investigated.”

A man was rushed to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury after being shot “at least once,” police said.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Kane Velázquez faces charges of attempted murder in California after a fatal shooting in the San Jose area

He will retire in 2019 after a 26-second loss to current heavyweight champion Francis Nganu on February 17, 2019 (pictured)

San Jose police announced the shooting near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Avenue on Monday, before revealing the arrest of Velazquez on Twitter the next morning. In this frame from local branch of ABC, it can be seen that the police are blocking the crime scene

Velazquez, 39, is a two-time UFC heavyweight champion, winning the title in 2010 before losing it in 2011 and regaining it from 2012 to 2015.

He retired in 2019 after a 26-second defeat by current heavyweight champion Francis Nganu on February 17, 2019. Since then, he has fought in the WWE and Mexico, but has focused mainly on training other fighters in his long-running gym. San Jose.

According to numerous reports, Velázquez is a married father of two.

Born in Salinas, California and raised in Yuma, Arizona, Velazquez was a star wrestler in high school and won a couple of state championships. He would later win the NJCAA national title while fighting at Central Community College in Iowa. He eventually moved to Arizona, where he set a record of 86-17 for the Sun Devils.

He was at ASU in Tempe, where he first worked with future UFC fighters such as Ryan Bader and CB Dollaway.

From there, Velázquez began studying jiu-jitsu and later switched to MMA in 2006.

Kane Velazquez trains with light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier during a media day at the American Kickboxing Academy on January 5, 2016 in San Jose, California. Velazquez focuses mainly on training others at AKA after retiring in 2019

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Expelled CNN boss Jeff Zucker keeps alive his romance with his longtime mistress Alison Golust, despite the consequences of their “secret” relationship.

The 56-year-old Zucker and the 49-year-old Golust play cat and mouse as they get in and out of the darkened cars separately to visit their respective homes, as both have been “left behind” by CNN, the DailyMail could exclusively reveal. com.

DailyMail.com watched the thieving couple travel back and forth from their Manhattan apartment buildings for several days before finally being spotted getting into the same SUV together.

The allegations come after Zucker stepped down as CNN’s president in February because he did not reveal his relationship with Golust when he was interviewed as part of Chris Cuomo’s investigation.

Golust resigned as CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer after violating the company’s “unethical support” policy for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “unethical support” by agreeing to a series of questions ahead of his on-air interviews.

Despite the drama, the couple seems to be stepping up as Golust was seen heading to Zucker’s home for three consecutive days last week.

CNN’s fired boss Jeff Zucker, 56, keeps in touch with 49-year-old Alison Golust, despite living

DailyMail.com spotted the secret couple traveling back and forth for several days from their homes in Manhattan for a while, before finally being spotted together getting into the same darkened SUV

The allegations come after Zucker stepped down as CNN president last month because he did not reveal his relationship with Gollust when he was interviewed as part of Chris Cuomo’s investigation

On Wednesday, Golust was seen leaving Zucker’s home around noon and walking in the fresh air around the Central Park reservoir before taking a taxi and returning to his Upper East Side apartment.

Zucker called while visiting the Magnolia bakery. Zucker went to get his sweets before returning straight to the house where Golust was photographed, arriving later that evening.

The couple seems to be working hard to keep their relationship quiet by playing cat and mouse games, leaving and arriving at their respective homes separately to spend time with each other.

DailyMail.com first spotted Golust arriving at Zucker’s home in Manhattan last Tuesday, where he spent about four hours.

She then returned to her apartment around 3pm before meeting her handsome man again around 4pm.

The next day, Golust was seen leaving Zucker’s home at noon and walking in the fresh air through the Central Park reservoir before taking a taxi and returning to his Upper East Side apartment.

The couple seems almost inseparable, as Golust was seen leaving Zucker’s home for the third day in a row last Thursday.

She wore baggy jeans, a black coat, and paired it with a black Chanel purse as she got into a cab.

Zucker and Golust say their romance began during the pandemic, but media sources told DailyMail.com that it was long before the pandemic and a secret had been uncovered in CNN’s offices.

One source told us that “everyone knew” about the affair and that it had been an “open secret for years.”

This became such a big problem that Warner Media split Zucker and Gollust last year, the source said.

The couple seems almost inseparable, as Golust was seen leaving Zucker’s home for the third day in a row last Thursday.

Golust wore extended jeans, a black coat and paired it with a Chanel bag when he got into a taxi and headed home after leaving his handsome man’s house.

Golust was again seen arriving at Zucker’s apartment. She was spotted getting out of the car with Citarella grocery bags with white flowers sticking out of her bag.

Zucker was seen arriving at his home in New York after completing orders. The former CNN president wore a hooded pair of slippers as he entered his building

On Monday, Golust spent the day with his two daughters, visiting a nail salon and grabbing lunch. Later that evening, she headed to Zucker’s home. She was wearing a black down coat with a small Chanel bag

Zucker was spotted alone on Friday and Saturday while carrying out orders.

On Friday, Zucker was careless with a hood and slippers as he entered his apartment building. On Saturday, he visited the famous Magnolia bakery for some delicacies. Zucker went to get his sweets before heading home.

Golust was seen arriving later that evening.

It was not until Monday, February 28, that the couple finally came out together.

Golust spent the day with his two daughters and headed to Zucker’s home later that evening.

Around 5:30 p.m., Zucker and Golust left his home together and boarded his driver’s Lincoln jeep.

Both previously married, Golust and Zucker lived in the same apartment building with their respective families, worked together on NBC and then on CNN for more than 20 years, and had what some call an “uncomfortably cozy” relationship. .

“Jeff took Alison to every job she had – after they left NBC, he tried to get her on Katie Kurik’s show, which failed, then put her in the office of her friend Governor Cuomo, then took her to CNN as soon as it gets it. this work, while failing up the road, “said a source.

Now they are both divorced, and a source told DailyMail.com that their separation is due at least in part to their relationship.

Zucker with his ex-wife Karin in 2011 (left) and Golust with her ex-husband Billy Hult (right) in 2008. The two have known and worked together for 20 years, starting with ABC, and media sources say their affair was an “open secret”

Zucker left last month as part of the aftermath of the dismissal of former presenter Chris Cuomo, who signaled the affair of his former boss in his fight for $ 18 million in damages, which he said he owed.

Chris was fired last December after an internal investigation found that he helped his brother Andrew, a former governor of New York, go through a sexual assault scandal while still working as a CNN presenter.

He is still fighting for $ 18 million – the remainder of his contract – but Zucker refused to pay, citing a conflict of interest between Chris’s relationship with his brother and his CNN coverage.

According to Politico, Cuomo’s team said it was hypocritical for Zucker to fire Chris over a conflict of interest when he had his own in his relationship with Golust.

“I have admitted that relations have developed in recent years. I should have revealed it when I started, but I didn’t. “I was wrong,” Zucker said in a statement. “As a result, I resign today.”

Rows of concrete panels arranged in labyrinth-like formations. Anti-tank road blocks. Piles of sandbags. Improvised barriers made of random pieces of metal, wood, old tires or anything at hand.

And wherever you look, there are blue and yellow Ukrainian flags.

The city is incredibly quiet. Many people have fled in recent days. Those who remained were taken to bomb shelters, basements and metro stations.

The checkpoints along the city’s entry points are run by ordinary Ukrainians. These are not soldiers. A week ago, many of these men would be at work or enjoying a vacation with friends and family.

Now they are ready to defend the capital of their country.

Alexei Goncharenko guarded one of Kyiv’s checkpoints on Tuesday, armed with a rifle he took last week after responding to calls from Ukrainian authorities to prepare for the country’s defense.

It was terribly cold and Goncharenko worked in shifts with other volunteers. When he is not at the checkpoint, he says he is at the base, helping where he can: “Humanitarian aid, helping people get [to places]arranging transport, sharing information. ”

Goncharenko is not and has never been in the military. He is a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament,

“I’m not a professional soldier at all, but I can try and I can do my best and I will do it if Russian forces enter Kyiv,” he told CNN.

Most of the men at the checkpoints are smiling. When a car passes, they greet the passengers, wave and wish them a safe journey wherever they go.

A man wearing glasses, a camouflage hat and woolen gloves with six of his 10 fingertips cut off, flashes a V-sign and waves.

The men here are trying to maintain high morale, even though they know all too well that the enemy they are facing is much better equipped.

Russia has assembled a 40-mile (64-kilometer) military convoy – made up of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other logistics vehicles – that is approaching the outskirts of Kyiv.

Most – but not all – of the men on the streets of the capital are equipped with rifles. They are located next to the road that connects the center of Kyiv with the suburbs.

The ribbons, made of a piece of yellow ribbon, show that they are part of the Territorial Defense Force, a branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which consists mainly of volunteers. Tens of thousands have joined in recent days.

Some look very, very young, wearing tracksuit bottoms and sneakers. In the cold cold weather, the defenders of the city – along with everyone else in Kyiv – are waiting for everything that is yet to come.