the neidermeyers had a float equipped with a diving platform , and it was there that jessie began to develop the form which won her a place first on her high school swim-team and then on the all-state team in 1971-what she remembered second-best about diving from the board on the neidermeyers '' float ( first-for then and for always-was the swoop through the hot summer air toward the blue glitter of the waiting water ) was how it felt to come up from the depths , through conflicting layers of warm and cold .