Timeline Of Diving Technology
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skin bare except for swimming trunks. That is why scuba diving used often to be called skindiving. Others dived in homemade drysuits, or in thick layers of ordinary clothes.
After the supply of war-surplus frogman’s fins dried up, for a long time fins were not available to the public, and some had to resort to such things as gluing marine ply to plimsoles.
Captain Trevor Hampton founds the British Underwater Centre at Dartmouth in Devon in England.
Rene’s Sporting Goods shop (now owned by Spirotechnique) becomes U.S. Divers, now a leading maker of diving equipment.
Georges Beuchat in Marseille, France invent and release the first isothermic wetsuit.
15 October 1953: The BSAC is founded.
1954: USS Nautilus, the first
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