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Crustaces - crustaceansA variety of crustaceans including some rather fierce looking crabs and lobsters. Date: 1930
The Wettest Derby on Record by The Tout, 1927The Wettest Derby on record in 1927 with numerous well-known personalities of the turf coping with the flooded course with the help of umbrellas and rowing boats. Includes the jockey M
Poissons - fishA variety of fish. Date: 1930
Algues - algaeIllustration of many varieties of algae. Date: 1930
Illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- The building of Saltash Bridge. Date: 1935
Britains frogmen divers by G. H. DavisIntroducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches. These underwater commandos worked off the D-Day beaches
Poster, Monaco Aquarium. Date: 20th century
Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North WalesView of Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The underwater Atlantic telegraph came ashore here. Date: early 20th century
Bottlenose dolphin wearing Christmas hat
Periscope and All by Gerald C. Hudson, WW1Humorous cartoon depicting the grimness of life in the trenches. THOMAS (encountering a pal on the surface of a flooded crater): Lor! Enry, ow you did make me jump. I thought you was a submarine
Ephemera danica, mayfly larvaThe larval stage of a mayfly lasts about a year, and is spent entirely underwater. When it hatches as an adult in the spring, usually May, it is only very short-lived
Methods of escape from submarine by G. H. DavisThe latest methods of escape from a sunken submarine: the rescue bell, the one-man escape chamber, and escape without the use of breathing apparatus. 1954
German U-boat by G. H. DavisThe battle of the Atlantic: explanatory drawings of German U-boats (submarines), and how they operate when at sea. Various aspects of undersea activities during the Second World War. Date: 1941
The Chaperon by Joyce DennysA young woman manages to steal a few moments with her sweetheart out of sight of her chaperon (whose Victorian bathing costume can be seen)
Bottlenose dolphins - dancing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions
Bottlenose dolphin, underwater, blowing heart shaped bubbles. Digital manipulation
The Mermaid by Hester Margetson
Vietnam War - Patriotic PosterVietnam War - Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Do not let them pass'! Amphibious American Frogman bayoneted by a Viet Cong Soldier. Date: 2nd half of the 20th century
Diver working on the hull of a ship underwaterA 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
RMS Titanic - poster, French version of Raise the TitanicRMS Titanic: poster for French version of the film Raise the Titanic, 61 x 45 inches. La Guerre des Abimes (The War of the Abyss). Date: 1980
Nordenfelt Submarine Trial, SwedenThe trial of the Nordenfelt submarine at Landskrona, Sweden, before the King of Denmark, Christian IX, and the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward
Diver in diving suit on seabed Date: 1920
Underwater escapologist - a boy dives into a swimming pool to help a man untie himself from a chair. (1 of 3) Date: 1967
William Heath Robinson shows how a remarkable and most heroic attempt was made by the Italians to convoy fresh fish to their troops through a minefield in the Mediterranean escort by fighter
WORLD OF LIVING DEADWORLD OF THE LIVING DEAD (Ed. Earl Repp) The scientists explore the subterranean world Date: 1932
Comic postcard, Children sitting on wall at the seaside - underwater record Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man and woman swimming in the sea Date: 20th century
Breathing Apparatus for Diving 1913Photographs 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
The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas, London HippodromeThe 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 HippodromePoster 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
Annette KellermannAnnette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 - 1975), 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
Bottlenose Dolphins, wearing Christmas hats
Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere
Eddystone Lighthouse, diving bell, and an underwater tunnelJohn Smeatons Eddystone Lighthouse, men in an underwater diving bell, and plans for an underwater tunnel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient
Common Bottlenose Dolphin, two facing each other
Museum of Underwater Wrecks Port en BessinIn 1970 Jaques Lemonchois was asked to clear war wrecks not cleared by the government. The results here include tanks, parts of aeroplanes and torpedos, plus films, photos and documents
British naval airships scouting for underwater craft, WW1British naval airships scouting for underwater craft, First World War. 1914-1918
Submarine divers 1869Divers wearing diving armour with flexible arms and helmet with eye-plates of strong glass, with a fresh supply of oxygen been pumped in through a long hose to allow the operator to say under
Plan of River Thames Tunnel and its ApproachesPlans for first underwater tunnel to connect Wapping with Rotherhithe. Date: circa 1824
Three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel 1825Section of the three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel in 1825, using Marc Isambard Brunels and Thomas Cochranes newly invented tunnelling shield technology. Date: 1825
Longitudinal section of Thames Tunnel 1825First of the construction took part in 1825, hundred and fifty feet under the River Thames. Date: 1825
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
Polish poster for a film, The Mystery of Eternal Night. 1955
Russian poster, sea diving -- young people, you are called, a world of undiscovered depths, amazing beauty. circa 1930s
Poster, Great Barrier Coral Reef, AustraliaPoster, The Marine Wonders of the Great Barrier Coral Reef, Australia -- Take a Kodak, designed by Trompf. 1933
Bottlenose Dolphin - recently born calf swims with mother (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks