Although she barely weighed 100 pounds and stood 5 feet tall, legendary diving pioneer and trailblazer Dottie May Frazier, who died recently at 99, never let anything stand in the way of her long life of adventure and achievement.
“I was holding her hand when she passed,” said Cyril May, her husband of 50 years. “Old age just caught up with her.” Frazier also had been a swimsuit model, a competitive billiards player, a racquetball player, a surfer, and a water and snow skier. She knew how to fix auto transmissions and used to ride motorcycles around the region. She sold her last motorcycle in 2019 after the DMV would no longer renew her motorcycle license — but her driver’s license had been renewed until 2023.
“And for many decades, I learned so much from her,” she said, “not just diving, but including on how to shoot pool.” Her father and grandfather, W. Reider, built a bathhouse closer to the beach and then the original Long Beach Tent City to house tourists attracted to the growing city’s waterfront. At 7, she plunged into the ocean to save her 5-year-old sister, Jeanne, who had fallen off their boat near the Long Beach harbor entrance.
“I could see everything under water as clear as if I were on the surface,” she wrote. “From this time forward, this became my world. New discoveries presented themselves daily amid this constantly changing underwater wonderland.”
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