the sun shining through the slats of venetian blinds over the broad square ports added a touch of g*y light to an otherwise rather somber and masculine room , its long center table littered with papers and charts , glass-fronted cabinets containing fishing gear and an array of guns and other weapons , and a black rubber underwater diving suit and aqualung suspended , almost like the skeleton in a sorcerer 's den , from a rack in one corner .