Timeline Of Diving Technology

Published October 27, 2010 | By Bman

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nuclear-powered submarine, is launched.

The first manned dives occur in the bathyscaphe FNRS-2.

First scuba certification course in the USA is offered by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. Program created by Albert Tillman and Bev Morgan now known as LA County Scuba.

1954: In the USA, MSA advertises (in Popular Mechanics magazine) a two-cylinder aqualung-like open-circuit diving set using the MSA regulator.

1955: In Britain, “Practical Mechanics” magazine publishes an item “Making an Aqualung”.

1955: Louis Malle, a young film maker of 23, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau shoot The Silent World, one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color.

1956: Wetsuits

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