called "a blissfully happy and devoted young couple." Death of John Bryant In August 1913, Alys and John Bryant headed to Victoria, British Columbia to perform a series of exhibition flights for $1,000. Leaving in a hurry, they did not thoroughly check their plane for damage. Alys cut her first flight short after ten minutes due to strong winds, stating, "I don't want a ride like that again. It was the roughest, toughest, and most fearsome flight I have so far experienced." The winds remained dangerously strong the next day, August 6, when John Bryant took to the air. If he had not flown, the Bryants would not have received their fee. Four hundred feet above the city, his plane went into a dive, crashing into the roof of the Lee Dye Building in Victoria's Chinatown. John's neck was broken, and he died soon after first responders reached him. Alys was running towards the site of the crash when Victoria's police chief gave her the news, and collapsed on the spot. Later career and death The Bennett Aero Company used the Bryants' fee to pay for repairs to the Lee Dye Building, leaving only 300 dollars for Alys Bryant. She traveled to California to bury her husband in the Whittier County Cemetery. After the funeral, she briefly gave up flying. She had returned to aviation by July 1914, when she once again took part in the Seattle Potlatch airshow. There, she expressed her belief that she too would someday be killed in a plane crash, and told the press:"Some of the happiest moments of my life were spent flying together. He taught me all I know of the aviation game and was always so proud that I knew as much as I did. His confidence helped me to do what I have already done, and the knowledge of it is going to help me this year. When it comes my time to go, I want to go the way that Johnny did. There will be no uncertainty about that sort of a finish. I would prefer that to a minor accident that would leave one helpless, to live, or half live, for years, useless in the world."By 1917, Bryant had become a deep-sea diver after befriending divers at Harbor Island, Seattle. She dove in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, exploring shipwrecks and removing defunct water pipes. Bryant told The