Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Dressed For The Deep : Diving Helmet Designs And Dangers
Paperback Edition: 1
The history of diving helmet designs from around the world. The diving helmet is an iconic piece of history. Years after it has been retired by modern navies and professional divers it retains its place on qualification badges and dive club logos. The early years of diving produced some amazing and some bizarre ideas and this book tracks their development and the reasoning behind them. The different approaches taken by the designers and their relative merits and successes are covered, taking away some of the mystery from these copper, brass and bronze legacies of a bygone age. With over 60 photos and illustrations the author also examines the various dangers of diving including the obligatory giant squid, as well as chronicling homemade diving equipment and his own 'deep sea diving' adventure. With a foreword by Tony Groom, author of Diver and In2Deep. This is a nice lighthearted introduction to the subject without overloading the reader with technical jargon but is still packed with info so even the most well informed hard hat expert will learn something!
Pages : 216
Publisher : Unallocated
Publication date : 2011
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure