Timeline Of Diving Technology
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expensive) to industry and civilians in Britain. Siebe Gorman made it at Chessington.
A British naval diving manual printed soon after this said that the aqualung is to be used for walking on the bottom with a heavy diving suit and weighted boots, and did not mention Cousteau.
A report to Cousteau said that only 10 aqualung sets had been sent to the USA because the market there was saturated.
The first camera housing called Tarzan is released by Georges Beuchat,
1951: The movie “The Frogmen” is released. It is set in the Pacific Ocean in WWII. In its last 20 minutes, it shows USA frogmen, using bulky 3-cylindered aqualungs on a combat mission. This equipment use is anachronistic (in reality they would have used rebreathers), but it shows that aqualungs were available
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