Vintage Diving Films

[Rubixcube]

While wasting time searching on archive.org I came across some videos that may interest some of you. The first is one of Cousteau's early short films. In it you can see where the shipwreck pictures from The Silent World were taken. The others are training films for U.S. Navy helmet divers circa WWII. The first is subtitled as The Technique of Diving and the second is described as "diving dress and characteristics of each part, dangers of underwater pressure and how to avoid injury of it. How the suits are prepared and inspected before diving." Both were filmed at Silver Springs, Florida.

Ten Fathoms Deep(1952)
http://www.archive.org/details/TheFathomsDeep

Deep Sea Diving:The Technique of Diving(1943)
http://www.archive.org/details/TheWorld ... DeepDiving

The Diving Dress(1944)
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.23574

[YankDownUnder]

HDS SEAP has numerous videos on Face Book, many of which come from You Tube. http://www.facebook.com/groups/120950924589540/

Our Hard Hat Video is: http://vimeo.com/34983859

If you don't have Face Book, some of the double hose films are below.

Andrea Doria, Fredrick Dumas' double hose dive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrId8v2JEg

Australian King of the Coral Sea, shows double hose that are chest mounted, the Lawson Lung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1B_Y-FB ... re=related

World Without Sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIjgL2lkwA

Cousteau's first film is Epaves (Wrecks) : http://vimeo.com/22584246

Cousteau's compilation of films: http://vimeo.com/22609495

[Bryan]

I have a few of those films in the store that I purchased from a vendor in IMEB.....I uploaded the one of Cousteau diving the double hose to the VDH Facebook page.

Thank you very much for sharing!