Christian J. Lambertsen, OSS officer who created early scuba device, dies at 93

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Christian J. Lambertsen, who as a medical student in 1939 invented a revolutionary underwater breathing system used by the military in World War II and who later helped coin the popular acronym to describe his device and others like it - scuba - died of renal failure Feb. 11 at his home in Newtown Square, Pa. He was 93.

Christian J. Lambertsen, OSS officer who created early scuba device, dies at 93
 
yes, the LARU was the first rebreather system on o2, I think thats what the navy seals used for mines. A sea hunt episode has a guy using a laru of some sort.

We are at the end of the WWII survivors, I wish I would of known he was alive, it would of been nice to meet him.




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