Diver Collection (page 2)

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. The diver in the background is being staged - a process where he is held for up to half an hour at a certain depth from the surface so that

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. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d

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

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

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

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

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

Lionel Buster Crabb, frogman and diver
Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956), British Royal Naval frogman and MI6 diver (some would say sabotage agent and alleged double agent)

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

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

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

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

Patricia Rose, former girlfriend of Lionel Buster Crabb
Patricia Rose, former girlfriend of Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956), British Royal Naval frogman and MI6 diver

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

Air sea rescue crew in a helicopter, Cornwall
Air sea rescue crew (left to right: diver, pilot and navigator) in a helicopter, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

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