Adventure History Blog
Charles Spalding’s Diving Bell
For 400 years, diving bells were the most common method of working underwater. The practice of lowering large airtight containers underwater, while ...
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How Deep is the Ocean? A New Understanding
Whether we fly over it, sail across it, or simply stand on a shore to stare at it, the ocean appears immense. But this is ...
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Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Ocean Part 3
Jacques Cousteau, Auguste Piccard and the Exploration of the Deep Ocean The Story So Far… Immediately after World War II, Swiss scientist ...
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Who Invented the Aqualung?
How the modern scuba system evolved How the modern scuba system was invented and came to be called the Aqualung is a ...
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RMS Niagara Gold Part 2
The True World War II Story of the Recovery of 8 Tons of British Gold from a German Minefield PART 2: Trapped ...
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Right Stuff, Wrong Direction – Forgotten Pioneers of Diving
Part 1: The Oldest Diving Suit in the World Diving is about pressure. The pressure that the weight of water exerts on ...
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