Dive Collection (page 2)

Aqaba harbour, on the Red Sea, Jordan
Silhouettes of four men on small boat Aqaba harbour, on the Red Sea, Jordan. A large freight ship is anchored in the background Date: circa 1995

Black dog leaps into sea, Menorca
A large black dog leaps into the water off the quayside at Alacufar, Menorca, Spain Date: 2000

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

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

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

Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer of VS-5, Vero Beach, Florida, in 1942

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

Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator -like the Douglas TBD Devastator, this carrier-going dive bomber suffered a severe mauling during the Battle of Midway in June 1942

Latecoere 298 -entered service with the French Navy in October 1938 as a torpedo bomber, but flew as a dive bomber against the Germans invading France in May 1940

Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless pair over the Pacific, 26 June 1942

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver -although built in large numbers, the Helldiver was never popular with it crews

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

Aichi D3A1 Navy Type 99 Dive bomber Val flown off carriers was employed with impressive effect in Pearl Harbor strike

Aichi D3A1 Val - carrier -going Japanese equivalent of the infamous Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes

Junkers Ju-87 crashed in Britain; Second World War, 1940
Photograph showing a crashed German Junkers Ju-87 dive-bomber, also known as a Stuka, somewhere in South East England during the summer of 1940

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

Gideon Encouraged
An angel encourages Gideon to take arms against the Midianites, promising dive help

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

Divers pearl fishing in shark cages
Divers in shark cages pearl fishing. Day & Haghe Lithographers to the Queen. S. Bendixen Lith. Date: 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

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

Frogs playing with a ball on eight Victorian scraps. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Learning to scuba dive in a swimming pool. Date: early 1970s

The Girl Who Really Went to Swim
A girl pauses on a diving board as she prepares to dive into a swimming pool. The title of the picture is a comment on the increasing craze for sunbathing during the late 1920s - somebody actually

Swimmer diving into the sea off the coast of Malta as part of an inflatable house project. The house was anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay

Insects riding on a frog on a Christmas card
Two insects (a bee and a dragonfly) riding on the back of a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

George Ernest Studdy, baby penguins on ice
George Ernest Studdy, illustration for an animal book. Baby penguins have such short legs, they find it difficult to walk on the ice. Date: 1941

Four frogs diving on a Christmas card
Four frogs diving into a river on a Christmas card, leaving their top hats behind. Date: circa 1890s

DIVE IN
A woman in a swimming costume dives into a lido! Date: 1930s

Children Diving 1896
Two wild-looking children dive from a rowboat on a lake; the boy stands with arms raised, ready to plunge into the water. Date: 1896

Stukas Bomb England
JU-87 Stukas depicted dive- bombing a chemical factory in central England, though in practice they lack the range to make such an attack possible, let alone feasible Date: October 1940

Advertisement, Michigan Water Wonderland -- thousands of pleasures add up to one wonderful vacation. 1952

Junkers Ju 88A -while used mainly for horizontal bombing, the type could be employed as an anti-shipping dive bomber

Henschel Hs 123A -first flown in 1936, this single seat dive bomber proved very effective from its Spanish Civil War debut through to mid 1944

Blackburn Skua with arrester wire hook down landing aboard an aircraft carrier

Bombs and bombing, methods and types of projectiles
The aerial bomber and his waepons: The wimperis sight used in the R.A.F in conjunction with a press-button bomb-release to ensure hitting the target; and other methods of bomb attack. Date: 1939

Accident to submarine A7 by G. H. Davis
The accident to the British submarine A7, embedded in soft sand and mud at the bottom of Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, with her nose raised at an angle

French Air Force by G. H. Davis
The French Armee de l Air: latest types of fighter and bombing aircraft in large-scale production at the start of the Second World War

Fighter bombers v. dive bombers by G. H. Davis
Fighter bombers versus dive bombers during the Second World War: operational methods defined. The dive bomber is vulnerable to fighter attack -- the fighter bomber is a more versatile weapon

Malta, target of German bombers, by G. H. Davis
A British stronghold in the Mediterranean during the Second World War: Malta, the target of German dive-bombers. The British naval and air base commanding the Sicilian Straits

Dive-bombing attack on Mediterranean convoy by G. H. Davis
The Stukas return: tactics and technique used in a dive-bombing attack on a Mediterranean convoy during the Second World War

German Junkers JU88K by G. H. Davis
The German Junkers JU88K long-range dive bomber shown in detail, including construction, armament, gun and crew positions. Date: early 1940s

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