Diving Collection (page 4)

RUNNING AT WOOLWICH 1867
Running at Woolwich via a rather hazardous looking ditch. Date: 1867

Bathers on Diving Board
Two girls in bathing suits one about to dive into the sea from a diving board. Date: circa 1905

Cergy Pontoise, Northern France
A young woman diver sits on a pontoon at Les Etangs De Cergy, Cergy Pontoise, Northern France Date: 1994

Salies-de-Bearn, France - Thermal Baths - Sports Pool. Date: circa 1920s

1950s Bathing Lovelies posing on a set of steps (leading to a high diving board?) - possibly at a Holiday Camp? Date: circa 1950s

One, Two, Three... JUMP! Four Dutch Bathers dive in... Date: circa 1910s

Waltz Time - Diver and Model - Marine Studios, Florida, USA
Waltz Time - Diver and Model - Marine Studios, Marineland, Ocean Shore Boulevard, Florida, USA. Photographers models are called upon to swim in the Oceanariums along with staff divers

Aichi 99 D3A Val
An Aichi 99 D3A Val Dive Bomber Flying over Snow Covered Fields Date: 1940s

USA - Bathing girl leaps into the sea off a diving board and suggests that everyone join her! Date: circa 1950s

We re Here For Our Annual (Holiday) - smart young folk playing on the edge of the lido pool Date: 1930

Engineering survey using divers - The Trans-Baikal Railway
The Trans-Baikal Railway - a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast

Lighter than Air - sculpture by Ebbe
" Lighter than Air" - sculpture by Axel (Emil) Ebbe (1868-1941). Date: 1912

Fashionable bathing suits of the 1920s
The cover illustration of The Spheres womens section features an array of fashionable outfits. The woman on the right sports an American wasp-stripe bathing suit

Olympic swimming pool, Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America. Date: circa 1950

Female diver returning to dry land
A female diver returning to dry land, warming up with a hot drink from a vacuum flask top. 1970s

Kitagawa Utamaro print - Watching Divers for Shellfish
Reproduction of a woodcut by Kitagawa Utamaro (1750-1806) entitled: Watching Divers for Shellfish. Date: circa late 18th century

Male Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - Diving off a high board to start their routine... Date: 1961

Divers repairing the bottom of a ship at anchor wearing John Bethells patent diving dresses. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 1838

Ernst Busch - Sea-Star - Lost in thought Date: circa 1920

Deep sea diver in diving bell, off The Lizard, Cornwall
Deep sea diver in a diving bell, preparing to descend to examine oil drilling equipment below the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Dr William Beebe, deep sea explorer, Bermuda
Dr William Beebe (1877-1962), American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, author and deep sea explorer, seen here in Bermuda

Hotel Casa Blanca, Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, with bungalows and a diving board. Date: circa 1930

Durban, South Africa - a Paradise for Bathers
Durban (Port Natal), South Africa, packed with holiday-makers, enjoying both the beach itself and an open-air swimming pool. 1928

Catalina, California, USA - Everett Adargo, deep sea diver
Catalina, California, USA - Everett Bernard Adargo (1891-1971), deep sea diver, who set a record of descending to 56ft in 3 minutes, 15 seconds

Come on and join me! - girl flies off a diving board
Come on and join me! - curvy girl in tight red swimsuit flies off the diving board! Date: circa 1930

Blackburn Skua diving with brakes extended The Skua never quite lived up to its early promise, being replaced by the equally dubious Fairey Barracuda

Young woman in pink swimsuit by swimming pool
Young woman in a pink swimsuit, lying on a diving board by a swimming pool. Date: circa 1980s

PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Rabaul. Japanese reconnaissance aircraft Mitsubishi F-1 shotted down in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, during the Second World War

Water shrew, adult, on alert while devouring a water beetle (a predatious diving beetle pictured(Dytiscidae spp.) (Neomys fodiens )

Human torpedo in action by G. H. Davis
A human torpedo in action: a two-man crew working together to sink an enemy warship during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Diver
William Walker, diver, who worked under Winchester Cathedral between 1906 and 1912 Date: 1906-1912

Deep Sea Diver
A deep sea diver finds a bottle from a shipwreck. 1892

Edward Reddish riding his bicycle off Worthing Pier
Edward J Reddish performs his Great Bicycle Dive off the pier at Worthing, Sussex

Bathing Beauty / Periscope
A bathing beauty thumbs her nose at a periscope: " Goodness, I m not afraid of that - I ve seen too many in my time!"

Caproni Transaereo
The ambitious Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, optimistically depicted over Lago Maggiore, under test rises only a few metres before nose-diving into the lake, never to rise again

Fat Lady Diving / 1820
A large lady diving naked into the sea from a bathing machine on the beach

Dytiscus marginalis, great diving beetle (male)

Divers building a pier or jetty wearing John Bethells patent diving dresses. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. 1838

Divers boring and blasting rocks wearing John Bethells patent diving dresses. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 1838

Bethells driving dress
Men working on a Wreck wearing John Bethells Patent Diving Dress Patent. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 1838

Diving
Natation (Plongeons). Page from Larousse Encyclopedia with photographs demonstrating a variety of dives. Date: 1930

Kicking the bucket to keep alive and well! 1914
Interestingly this artical was published on April fools day in The Sketch, 1914, you can come to your own conclusions! Latest primitive life-saving device invented by a German engineer

Municipal Swimming Baths, Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Municipal Swimming Baths, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1930

Old Maid card game - The Deep Sea Diver. circa 1950s

Diving apparatus by Siebe at the Great Exhibition
Augustus Siebe (1788 April 15, 1872) exhibited in the machinery department at the Great Exhibition in London a model of his diving apparatus. Date: 1851

Diving experiments in Paris
Testing of various diving equipment in the Seine, Paris, 1855. The technologies included different diving apparatus such as those invented by Siebe, Heinke and Cabirol

Diving at Blackwall
The attempt to recover the body of Mr. Busfield at Blackwall, using the diving apparatus invented by the brothers Deane, and performed by diver Thomas Jones. Date: 1843

Deep sea divers at work underwater. 1896

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