Timeline Of Diving Technology

Published October 27, 2010 | By Bman

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for it because of WWII.

July 1943: Commeinhes reached 53 meters (about 174 feet) using his breathing set off the coast of Marseille.

1944: Commeinhes died in the liberation of Strasbourg in Alsace. His invention was submerged by Cousteau’s invention.

Christian J. Lambertsen of the United States designed a ‘Self-Contained Underwater Oxygen Breathing Apparatus’ for the U.S. military. It was a rebreather. It was the first device to be called SCUBA.

Various nations use frogmen equipped with rebreathers for some of the best known and most spectacular war actions: see Human torpedo.

Hans Hass later said that during WWII the German diving gear firm Drger offered him an open-circuit scuba set with a demand regulator. It may have been a separate

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