Diving Collection (page 5)

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

Deep sea diver going down into the water, assisted by a sailor. 1897

Diving Stone at the Great Roman Bath, Bath, Somerset
The Diving Stone at the Great Roman Bath, Bath, Somerset. circa 1910s

Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - View of Massowah - Men on causeway - some diving into water; some carrying loads etc. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889

Gentlemens Bathing Place, Whitehead - a view of the changing box and pier for swimming, with men diving. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Whitehead). Date: circa early 1900s

Gentlemens Bathing Place, Larne - a view showing the gentlemens bathing pier with diving board and people on it. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Larne). Date: circa early 1900s

Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - Massowah - Natives on quayside - some diving into sea. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889

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

Frogs having a swimming lesson on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Underwater house, Plymouth
A female physicist multitasking (reading a magazine whilst knitting) in Sealab II, Britains first permanent underwater laboratory, 30 feet below the waves off the coast of Plymouth, Devon

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

Diver on the seabed off the coast of Malta. Date: 1970s

Diver ascending from depth in the Mediterranean, viewed from above. Date: 1968

Diver on the seabed in the Mediterranean. 1977

Wreck diving in the Mediterranean. Date: 1974

Divers on the seabed off the coast of Malta, during exploration of a wrecked vessel. Date: 1974

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

Wreck diving off the coast of Malta. Date: 1974

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