Diver Collection

Giant Octopus & US Diver
A huge octopus nearly succeeds in overcoming American diver Martin Lund, but is eventually beaten off

Diver and Mermaid
A diver exploring a wrecked ship has an unexpected encounter

Advertisement for Hotel du Cap D Antibes
Advertisement for the Hotel du Cap D Antibes at Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, showing sunbathers and swimmers enjoying the flat rocks that act as such a sun trap for sun worshippers

Annette Kellerman diving in silhouette
Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (18861975) - Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time

Sea Bathing Pool (Lido) at Southport, Lancashire, England. Date: 1943

Deep sea diver at work
A deep sea diver at work, assisted by a colleague. 1965

Britains frogmen divers by G. H. Davis
Introducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches

Diver and Octopus
Divers are periodically at odds with octopi, and diver Palmer, at Cape Town, is one of many - but a tug on his line brings help from his colleagues

Lake Submarine / Diver
A diver from a " Simon Lake" submarine placing a mine in channels used by enemy ship 2 of 2

German Diver Goes Down
A German diver goes down to the wreck of an Allied vessel, hoping to salvage useful items and materials

Daredevil Diver Leslie Gadsby, Shanklin Pier, Isle of Wight and his variety of crazy dives, including a 90ft dive in a sack, a 45ft long arm balance

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

Gertrude Hermes - Sculptor, Designer, Engraver
Gertrude Hermes (1901-1983) - Sculptor, Designer, Engraver 1940

Pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf
The Pearl Fishery in the Persian Gulf. Sidi-Arab diver with pince-nez. The Mosquito Fleet at anchor. The divers at work below. Apparatus used by the divers. Date: 1881

Japanese Pearl Divers Date: circa 1930s

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Stages of the pearl fishery industry in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1902

Gavia stellata, red-throated diver
Plate 45 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

HMS Marlborough, Royal Navy, dressing a diver

Army diver preparing to enter the water
An army diver preparing to enter the water, while a group of soldiers stand on the bank watching him

Scuba Diver
A scuba diver inside a large metal water tank. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Cricketer, Diver
E.J. Diver Cricketer - Surrey and Warwickshire

Underwater Romance
When diver meets mermaid, even if sparks don t fly, the happy couple certainly make waves

Sponge diver loses his footing
Diving for sponges off the Tunisian coast, diver loses a leg to a shark

First Photo of a Diver
Illustration based on the first underwater photograph of a diver

Music cover, The Walnut Tree, by E W Diver, Old English Dance. Date: 1913

The first photograph of a diver at the bottom of the sea

Entrance to the dockyard, Portsmouth
Entrance to the dockyard at Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) disappeared on 19 April 1956

A deep sea diver in Plymouth Docks, taking a rest break, his heavy helmet resting on his knee. Date: 1960

Medieval diver using bladder to breath. Engraving
Medieval diver using bladder to breath. Facsimile of an engraving from L Art Militaire, by Vegece, 1532. Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877

Man-at-arms. Diver using an armoured sealed diving suit to breathe. Facsimile of an engraving from L Art Militaire, by Vegece, 1532

Siebe Gorman steel bladed diver's knife with bronze scabbard

Mother of pearl divers attacked by a shark, Tahiti. Date: 1885

James & Marie Finney, exhibition swimmers at Hippodrome
James Finney and his sister Marie, champion exhibition swimmers, appearing at the newly-opened London Hippodrome in 1900. Date: 1900

Diver, HMS Blake, Royal Navy, probably circa 1900 (hand coloured photo)

HMS Marlborough dressing a diver possibly 1930s

Aberdeen Harbour Diver Victorian period Date: 19th century

Diver in Aberdeen Harbour Date: 19th century

Siebe Gorman pump converted to drinks cabinet
MARITIME: a rare fully fitted Admiralty pattern two diver twin cylinder double acting pump by Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd, London converted to a bespoke drinks cabinet. 23ins. x 42ins. x 20ins

William Walker, Diver, Winchester Cathedral

Diver working on the hull of a ship underwater
A diver (in helmet and breathing gear) working on the hull of a submerged vessel - most likely welding work using an oxy acetylene torch. Date: 1943

Diving Off a Bi-Plane
A Moth bi-plane being put to imaginative use at the De Havilland School of Flying at Hatfield. Date: 1932

Swimming Season
Swimming scenes from pools in Wembley, Blackpool and San Francisco. The new Wembley pool is being opened by Rt. Hon. L. S. (Leo) Amery (1873-1955). Date: 1932

Helen Wainwright (1906-1965), also known as Helen Stelling was a diver and swimmer who represented the United States at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics

Diver in diving suit on seabed Date: 1920

Divers and Diving, The Reservoir Diving Suit Date: 1884

Basil Rathbone diving
English actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, here caught mid-dive. Date: 1939

Diver at work in sea diving suit Date: 1880

Divers at work on the seabed Date: 1880

RAF sky divers jumping from 12, 000 feet. Date: circa 1960s

Parachute training in a hangar. Date: circa 1960s

Sky divers freefalling - they belong to the RAF Falcons freefall team, taking part in an activity in France. Date: 1965

RAF parachutists pouring beer while in freefall. Date: 1960s

Sky divers belonging to the RAF Falcons freefall team, taking part in an activity in France, with a large aircraft in the background. Date: 1965

Divers gathering pearl-oysters in Western Australia waters

c. 1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men
c.1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men

Breathing Apparatus for Diving 1913
Photographs showing the front and back of a man wearing the latest breathing equipment to dive underwater, reaching a submarine of depths of about 200 feet, for about an hour

Toshusai Sharaku image. He was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known

The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas, London Hippodrome
The Christmas production at the London Hippodrome, using its famous water tank to enact an underwater wcene about treasure seekers beneath the sea

Poster for The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas London Hippodrome
Poster for the latest wonder show at the London Hippodrome, for Christmas 1906. The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas featured several scenes played under water in the Hippodromes transparent tank

Baillons crake, Porzana pusilla, and great northern loon, Gavia immer

Cormorant species used for fishing in Asia
Cormorant used for fishing in Asia, perhaps a great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, or Japanese cormorant, Phalacrocorax capillatus

Advert, Samson Barnett Diving Apparatus
Advertisement for Samson Barnett, Diving Apparatus Manufacturer to the Royal Navy. 1862

The Severn Tunnel works, 1880
The Severn Tunnel works - building the railway tunnel linking South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire under the estuary of the River Severn. It was built between 1873 and 1886. 1

Harold Whitey Packman, deep sea diver, Santa Catalina, USA
Harold Whitey Packman, deep sea diver, Santa Catalina Island, USA, Date: circa 1926

Polish poster for a film, Wraki (Wrecks), directed by Ewa Petelska and Czeslaw Petelski. circa 1956

Danish poster, underwater film in colour, Greece, Aqua Film Co, with commentary by Henrik Schwensen, poster designed by Lehmann. circa 1950s

Russian poster, sea diving -- young people, you are called, a world of undiscovered depths, amazing beauty. circa 1930s

Great northern loon or diver, Gavia immer.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Diver lays mines 1915
A diver lays mines from a submarine. Date: 1915

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

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

Fairground Berwick-on-Tweed
A man enters the control box of the Sky Diver fairground ride on the banks of the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Teed, Northumberland. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1991

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

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

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

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

16th Parachute Brigade training, RAF Abingdon
Soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Date: 1962

16th Parachute Brigade training
Two soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training. Date: 1962

Sky diver practising in a field. Date: circa 1963

Sky diver practising before a show. Date: 1965

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

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

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