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  1. Oceanaut

    The Advent of Commercial Helium Diving

    Thank you for posting the videos. Interestingly, the Eureka, the coring vessel Shell provided as the support vessel for Hannes Keller’s 1,000’/305M dive off Catalina Island in December 1962 was fitted with a dynamic positioning system. According to Dynamic positioning - Wikipedia, whereas the...
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    Hannes Keller's 1,000' Dive

    Excerpt from Dr Val Hempleman’s letter to the author of October 29, 1993 on Hannes Keller’s decompression procedures: A few years after the Keller episode had faded away, I met him socially and we discussed his past diving successes and failures. He said to me that when he came to fulfil the...
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    Early Experimental Helium Diving in Britain and Russia (1940-1956)

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) Before World War II the British Admiralty conducted a few experiments with helium in collaboration with Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd and several of the firm's associates, including Sir...
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    A Failed Attempt to Introduce an Umbilical Supplied Electronic Rebreather to Saturation Diving

    The early 1980s saw a major step forward in saturation diving with the introduction of helium recycling, whereby instead of exhaling the gas mix into the water, it is returned to the bell and thence to the support vessel, where it is scrubbed, sent back down and reused. Recycling systems are...
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    The First Gulf of Mexico Oilfield Diving Company

    Al Warriner by Oceanaut posted Oct 2, 2019 at 9:56 AM
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    The Development of Practical Helmet Diving

    I’m told that the best sources for a drawing of Bethell’s dress would be “History Under the Sea” by Alexander McKee and “The Infernal Diver” by John Bevan
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    Perry PC5C Submersible 1968

    The Perry-Link "Deep Diver" was the first mini-sub with a diver lock-out compartment Deep Diver by Oceanaut posted Mar 24, 2020 at 1:43 PM
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    The Development of Practical Helmet Diving

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) On June 26 1840 Augustus Siebe, a Prussian who had emigrated to England in 1816, delivered his "close" or "tight" dress diving apparatus to Colonel Charles Pasley, Director of the Royal...
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    Stena Seaspread accident

    For their part in the Stena Seaspread rescue, Taylor and Puttnam received the Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct.
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    The First Commercial Remotely Operated Vehicle

    Thank you. There's a good deal of interesting stuff here. I did not know about the ROV to look inside the torpedo tubes of the sunken USS Scorpion, nor the Anthro, which must have been well before its time.
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    How a Boy Scout caving group became a commercial diving company

    . In 1958, Galerne set up a new branch, International Underwater Contractors (IUC), in Montreal: the logical place, he thought, for someone who did not speak English to develop a North American business and learn about the United States market. He soon discovered that Quebec was as different...
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    How a Boy Scout caving group became a commercial diving company

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) Towards the end of the 1970s, before they bought Ocean Systems, the Dallas-based energy concern Ensearch approached André Galerne about buying his company, International Underwater...
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    Working at 312 Feet on Air

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) In the summer of 1957, Associated Divers, at the time the dominant diving company in California, were contracted to provide standby divers for a job in 312'/95M of water. S.V. "Sammy"...
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    Purisima: The First Commercial Lock-Out Diving Bell

    . The divers were to work out of the Purisima in Aquala dry suits and full-face masks. Some time before, in the abalone fishery, Bev Morgan and Ramsey Parks had bolted a demand regulator onto a free-flow Widolf mask, which allowed them to use a smaller compressor. After a period making his own...
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    Purisima: The First Commercial Lock-Out Diving Bell

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) Fitting out the Purisima (collection of R. "Lad" Handelman) by Oceanaut posted Dec 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM One of Dan Wilson's responsibilities after the sale of General Offshore Divers to...
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    Taylor Diving & Salvage: Emergency Surgery in Saturation

    I'll gladly send you a transcript of my interview with your grandfather if you'll contact me via oceanautpress.com
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    A Diver's Worst Nightmare

    Excerpted from The History of Oilfield Diving: An Industrial Adventure by Christopher Swann (Oceanaut Press) The worst nightmare for a bell diver is the prospect of having to rescue an unconscious partner. Prompted by the spate of accidents in the mid-1970s, diving companies in the North Sea...
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    The Late Bev Morgan in his Own Words: Diving in Cook Inlet, Alaska

    In August 1965, in a cramped chamber at the Ocean Systems research laboratory in Tonawanda, New York, Bob Christensen and Art Noble spent 48 hours at 650ft/198M - a longer and deeper dive than anyone had done before.
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    The First Commercial Remotely Operated Vehicle

    . Experience with the RCV-125 soon led to a fully-fledged commercial version, the RCV-225, which Martech also ordered. The second American customer for the vehicle was Taylor Diving, a company that became a major operator of ROVs. The RCV-225 was a great success. As John Lawrence of the former...
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