Dressed in dry suits, the two swam easily along the bottom of Merritt’s pool, despite the various gear they carried for the demonstration. “You don’t have to be in great shape,” Jones said.

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Other volunteers and staff will give diving demonstrations during the week’s program. It’s not that his antique equipment, some of it more than 100 years old, is outdated. It all works.