“A csend világa”. Világ Ifjúsága, 1956/9.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s ‘Le Monde Du Silence’. On the cover of the Hungarian monthly youth magazine called ‘The Youth Of The World’, Sept 1956.

Precision timing is required for graceful triple dive by U.S swim experts. In: Victory magazine 1944. vol.2. no.4. 

Filmfelvétel víz alatt. In: Ifju Technikus, 1956. július.

Underwater film making.

The first microgravity training pool at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (edit: its name was different at that time), Johnson Space Center, Houston, c1970.

via NBL

A sponge diver ready for action, Tarpon Springs, Florida. Creator:  Keystone View Co., c1926.

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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J. Peress’ 1-atm dive suit, Tritonia, explored the Lusitania wreck in 1935. Jim Jarrett was Peress’s chief diver and made this dive to 312 feet. This suit was a precursor to the “Jim” suit, named for Jim Jarrett.

(Source: NOAA/OAR/NURP)

Woman diving from pier, c1892. Copyright: J.S. Johnston.

Source: Library of Congress

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