David Wilson
Contributor
Several days ago, I chanced upon a twenty-year run of the Danish Historical Diving Society journal Dykkehistorisk Tidsskrift online at Dykkehistorisk Tidsskrift 1997 – 2017 – Dykkehistorisk Selskab. Available for free download are full-text documents, i.e. not just the usual front covers, with PDF scans of all 62 issues of the periodical to appear over those two decades, including the first edition. I wish the rest of the world's historical diving societies were so generous with the past issues of their journals as their counterparts in Denmark, Germany and the USA have been.
For the benefit of the non-Danophones among us, I have taken the liberty of translating the 1997-2017 journal index into English. I have split it into two postings, Numbers 1-31 and 32-62. As a retired linguist, I have tried my hand at rendering several articles into English, which I have marked in bold type below. The fascinating anecdotes they contain made the necessary preparatory work of correcting and polishing up the output of optical character recognition and machine translation all the more worthwhile. They also prove that Denmark is no diving backwater but a small country punching above its weight with a proud and thriving tradition of military diving, recreational diving and even diving equipment manufacturing. I hope this information is of some interest to students of European diving history.
Danish Historical Diving Society journal Dykkehistorisk Tidsskrift
Index in English Part I: Numbers 1-31
1997 No. 1
• A new magazine
• Founding meeting
• Our first swim-divers
• Wor-Ma regulator
• Board of Directors
1997 No. 2
• Navy minesweepers
• Draeger Diving Lifejacket T2
• Jydsk Dykkerfirma Exhibition in Holstebro
1997 No. 3
• From underwater sledge to underwater scooter and from helmet diver to swim-diver
• Car in the harbour – an experiment!
• The first Danish frogmen
• Visit to Holmen
• Ebeltoft Maritime Days
1998 No. 4
• Falck Rescue Corps - from helmet diver to swim-diver
• Training Danish frogmen at the Norwegian Frogman School / Lt. Ove Lund
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus, part 1
• Reception at the Navy Diving School
• General Assembly
1998 No. 5
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 1
• Medieval project reconstruction
• S33 - an amateur regulator from the sixties
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus, part 2
• Dive-in 98
1998 No. 6
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 2
• Buddy´s “Inspiration” – an item of electronic diving equipment
• Dive-in at the Fjord & Bælt Centre
• Rare diving pump on Holmen
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze pump found on Holmen
• Diver from The Dark Age
1999 No. 7
• Portrait of a diver - Johannes Andreasen, Fåborg
• General Meeting 1999
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 3
• Elephant mines
• Theodore Guillaumet’s demand regulator experiment
• Statue of Rouquayrol-Denayrouze diver
1999 No. 8
• Excursion to Draegerwerk
• Fenzy DC55 mixed gas appliance
• Dive-in 99
• Bubbles from the Deep
• Action 99 in Messecenter Herning
• The garden gate
1999 No. 9
• My experiences as a diver at the Copenhagen Fire Brigade
• Draeger injector device
• Discharge training in the Navy 1955 with Draeger diving life jacket
• Unidentified open helmet at the Navy Diving School
• Bubbles from the Deep
2000 No. 10
• Minor, diver, rescuer, milkman, fisherman and rat catcher
• “Tank lifejackets”
• The mouthpiece - Finn Jensen
• Hermann Stelzner: Tauchertechnik 1943
• General Assembly
• The first frogmen - 1
• Membrane renovation
2000 No. 11
• Helmet diving attack on the German cruiser Nürnberg April 1945
• The first frogmen, part 2, developments
• The mouthpiece - Hans Thøger Jensen
2000 No. 12
• Krudt & Kugler defence exhibition
• The attack on the cruiser Nürnberg
• The first frogmen 3
• The mouthpiece - Kaj Jensen
• The development of Russian rebreathers
2001 No. 13
• Marine archaeological settlement studies
• General Assembly
• IDA 71
• Helmet diver and cog
• Frogmen “on display”
• Artificial light underwater
2001 No. 14
• Miniature helmet
• Draeger PA 37 light diving equipment
• The Suez Crisis 1956 - The Swiss rescue ship Sigyn’s efforts in the 1956 – 1957 clean-up
• Old divers never die
• DC 55 renovation
• Ebeltoft Dive-Inn
2001 No. 15
• The story of “Frederikshavn suits”
• Excursion to Bergen
• From Donald Duck to the salvage of the ship Al Kuwait
• Toy-Diver
• Miniature helmet
2002 No. 16
• Peter Hansen Hessing - “Hansen Patent”
• Helmet diving technique
• Momsen honoured
• Southern submarine excavated
• General Assembly
• Christmas meeting at the Diving School
2002 No. 17
• Wreck fisherman Harry Olsen
• The Danish 2-bolt helmet
• Free-ascent training
• Baltic Sails
• Special exhibition at Ebeltoft town hall
2002 No. 18
• A Faroese diving company during World War II
• Original, unoriginal, copy or pure garbage
• Cox Gun
• Broadsheet: Diver Ole Larsen’s death
• Old 2-bolt helmet at SOK
• Rolleimarin
2003 No. 19
• Resuscitation of the casualty diver
• ROLLEImarin - Hans Hass
• Inauguration of the Ebeltoft premises
• Diving history weekend in Stockholm
• General Assembly
• “Type AB” oxygen apparatus and harness
• Holiday 2003 in the Bella Centre
2003 No. 20
• Back then I was a little frog
• Adoption of the diving ship Læsø
• 2-bolt helmet purchase
• Diving History Collection
• Arne Zetterström / Hydrox diving
• Book Review - Descent into Darkness
• Book Review - Description of a Diving Machine
2003 No. 21
• Draeger PA40 diving apparatus
• Exhibition at the Kronborg Trade and Maritime Museum
• The company’s 2-bolt helmet
• Diving history collection
• HDS France – historical diving societies
• Diving disease - physics and physiology
• Baltic Sails 2003
• Diving disease - the early hazards
2004 No. 22
• Historic Diving in the Bella Centre
• Wreck diver Harry Olsen’s diary
• General Assembly
• Change of manager at the Navy’s Diving School
• Diving history collection
• Diving history treasure
• Dutch Rouquarol-Denayrouze replica
• Skovshoved Underwater Group - 50 years
2004 No. 23
• Otto Lerris in memoriam
• Helmet stolen
• The Decade of Decompression 1897 - 1907
• Diving history collection
• Tall Ship’s Race, Aalborg
2004 No. 24
• The helmet that came up from the depths
• Rouquarol-Denayrouze replica
• PA 61 and other Draegerwerk 2-hose regulators
• Historic diving - Ebeltoft Maritime Days
• Historical diving - Baltic Sails 2004
• Diving history collection
• The sponge divers of Kalymnos
2005 No. 25
• Denmark’s last heavy diver with copper helmet
• General Assembly
• Diving history company in the Bella Centre
• The invention of the mechanical fish
• Air supply for helmet divers using Draeger diving machine
• Diving history collection
• Diving history at wreck exhibition 2005
• Hans Hass - a film
2005 No. 26
• The first helmet divers
• Exclusion to London 2005
• Junkers compressor
• Tribute - Kaj Jensen
• Diving history collection
• Diving Museum in Florida
• Tribute - Torben Suhr
• A 16 mm film came to the society
2005 No. 27
• Ancient Bell diving seminar in Belgium
• Open helmets in Denmark
• Ebeltoft Maritime Days
• Early bell diving in Denmark
• Oxygen device donated to the company
• Exhibition at the Frigate Jutland - Ebeltoft
• Baltic Sails 2005 in Elsinore
• Diving history collection
• Ordinance regarding diving, etc.
2006 No. 28
• Swiss diver Jørgen Bruun - a self-portrait
• Two bell diver stories
• General Assembly
• Diving in the Bella Centre
• Diving physics
• Diving history collection
• Wreck exhibition 2006
• Structuring of DSF´s archive
2006 No. 29
• Visits from HDS and SDHF
• The heroic diver
• Open helmet in the 50s
• Scott Hydro-Pak
• Diving history collection
• Donation from Nakskov Marine Association
• Diving Kattegat Centre
• Diving at the Frigate Jylland
2006 Jubilee No. DHS
• Preface by Commander Carsten Munk
• The development of diving
• Open helmets in Denmark
• Peter Hansen Hessing - “Hansen’s Patent”
• Heavy diving technique
• The Danish 2-bolt helmet (Hansen’s Patent)
• Heavy diving attack on the German cruiser Nuremberg April 1945
• Falck Rescue Corps - from helmet diver to swim-diver
• The Suez Crisis 1956 Switzerland’s salvage ship Sigyn´’s efforts to clear the Suez Canal 1956-57
• From Donald Duck to salvage the ship “Al Kuwait”
• The Nautiek Trophy
• Fenzy DC55 mixed gas appliance
• The helmet that came up from the depths
2007 No. 30
• Special price for the Society and the Frigate Jutland
• 10 year anniversary
• On the Seabed
• Wandering under the sea
• Henry Fleuss
• Historical diving, Kattegatcenteret
• Historical diving in Ebeltoft
• General Assembly
2007 No. 31
• The diver is dressed in leather clothes from head to toe
• Draeger cylinder sets
• Helmets of The Deep
• Watch out for exact replicas
• Historic diving in the Kattegat Centre
• The bibliophile pages
• Helmet register
• Hansen: Patent 100 years
• Ebeltoft Marine Days
For the benefit of the non-Danophones among us, I have taken the liberty of translating the 1997-2017 journal index into English. I have split it into two postings, Numbers 1-31 and 32-62. As a retired linguist, I have tried my hand at rendering several articles into English, which I have marked in bold type below. The fascinating anecdotes they contain made the necessary preparatory work of correcting and polishing up the output of optical character recognition and machine translation all the more worthwhile. They also prove that Denmark is no diving backwater but a small country punching above its weight with a proud and thriving tradition of military diving, recreational diving and even diving equipment manufacturing. I hope this information is of some interest to students of European diving history.
Danish Historical Diving Society journal Dykkehistorisk Tidsskrift
Index in English Part I: Numbers 1-31
1997 No. 1
• A new magazine
• Founding meeting
• Our first swim-divers
• Wor-Ma regulator
• Board of Directors
1997 No. 2
• Navy minesweepers
• Draeger Diving Lifejacket T2
• Jydsk Dykkerfirma Exhibition in Holstebro
1997 No. 3
• From underwater sledge to underwater scooter and from helmet diver to swim-diver
• Car in the harbour – an experiment!
• The first Danish frogmen
• Visit to Holmen
• Ebeltoft Maritime Days
1998 No. 4
• Falck Rescue Corps - from helmet diver to swim-diver
• Training Danish frogmen at the Norwegian Frogman School / Lt. Ove Lund
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus, part 1
• Reception at the Navy Diving School
• General Assembly
1998 No. 5
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 1
• Medieval project reconstruction
• S33 - an amateur regulator from the sixties
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze apparatus, part 2
• Dive-in 98
1998 No. 6
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 2
• Buddy´s “Inspiration” – an item of electronic diving equipment
• Dive-in at the Fjord & Bælt Centre
• Rare diving pump on Holmen
• Rouquayrol-Denayrouze pump found on Holmen
• Diver from The Dark Age
1999 No. 7
• Portrait of a diver - Johannes Andreasen, Fåborg
• General Meeting 1999
• The explosion in Kalø Vig 1969, part 3
• Elephant mines
• Theodore Guillaumet’s demand regulator experiment
• Statue of Rouquayrol-Denayrouze diver
1999 No. 8
• Excursion to Draegerwerk
• Fenzy DC55 mixed gas appliance
• Dive-in 99
• Bubbles from the Deep
• Action 99 in Messecenter Herning
• The garden gate
1999 No. 9
• My experiences as a diver at the Copenhagen Fire Brigade
• Draeger injector device
• Discharge training in the Navy 1955 with Draeger diving life jacket
• Unidentified open helmet at the Navy Diving School
• Bubbles from the Deep
2000 No. 10
• Minor, diver, rescuer, milkman, fisherman and rat catcher
• “Tank lifejackets”
• The mouthpiece - Finn Jensen
• Hermann Stelzner: Tauchertechnik 1943
• General Assembly
• The first frogmen - 1
• Membrane renovation
2000 No. 11
• Helmet diving attack on the German cruiser Nürnberg April 1945
• The first frogmen, part 2, developments
• The mouthpiece - Hans Thøger Jensen
2000 No. 12
• Krudt & Kugler defence exhibition
• The attack on the cruiser Nürnberg
• The first frogmen 3
• The mouthpiece - Kaj Jensen
• The development of Russian rebreathers
2001 No. 13
• Marine archaeological settlement studies
• General Assembly
• IDA 71
• Helmet diver and cog
• Frogmen “on display”
• Artificial light underwater
2001 No. 14
• Miniature helmet
• Draeger PA 37 light diving equipment
• The Suez Crisis 1956 - The Swiss rescue ship Sigyn’s efforts in the 1956 – 1957 clean-up
• Old divers never die
• DC 55 renovation
• Ebeltoft Dive-Inn
2001 No. 15
• The story of “Frederikshavn suits”
• Excursion to Bergen
• From Donald Duck to the salvage of the ship Al Kuwait
• Toy-Diver
• Miniature helmet
2002 No. 16
• Peter Hansen Hessing - “Hansen Patent”
• Helmet diving technique
• Momsen honoured
• Southern submarine excavated
• General Assembly
• Christmas meeting at the Diving School
2002 No. 17
• Wreck fisherman Harry Olsen
• The Danish 2-bolt helmet
• Free-ascent training
• Baltic Sails
• Special exhibition at Ebeltoft town hall
2002 No. 18
• A Faroese diving company during World War II
• Original, unoriginal, copy or pure garbage
• Cox Gun
• Broadsheet: Diver Ole Larsen’s death
• Old 2-bolt helmet at SOK
• Rolleimarin
2003 No. 19
• Resuscitation of the casualty diver
• ROLLEImarin - Hans Hass
• Inauguration of the Ebeltoft premises
• Diving history weekend in Stockholm
• General Assembly
• “Type AB” oxygen apparatus and harness
• Holiday 2003 in the Bella Centre
2003 No. 20
• Back then I was a little frog
• Adoption of the diving ship Læsø
• 2-bolt helmet purchase
• Diving History Collection
• Arne Zetterström / Hydrox diving
• Book Review - Descent into Darkness
• Book Review - Description of a Diving Machine
2003 No. 21
• Draeger PA40 diving apparatus
• Exhibition at the Kronborg Trade and Maritime Museum
• The company’s 2-bolt helmet
• Diving history collection
• HDS France – historical diving societies
• Diving disease - physics and physiology
• Baltic Sails 2003
• Diving disease - the early hazards
2004 No. 22
• Historic Diving in the Bella Centre
• Wreck diver Harry Olsen’s diary
• General Assembly
• Change of manager at the Navy’s Diving School
• Diving history collection
• Diving history treasure
• Dutch Rouquarol-Denayrouze replica
• Skovshoved Underwater Group - 50 years
2004 No. 23
• Otto Lerris in memoriam
• Helmet stolen
• The Decade of Decompression 1897 - 1907
• Diving history collection
• Tall Ship’s Race, Aalborg
2004 No. 24
• The helmet that came up from the depths
• Rouquarol-Denayrouze replica
• PA 61 and other Draegerwerk 2-hose regulators
• Historic diving - Ebeltoft Maritime Days
• Historical diving - Baltic Sails 2004
• Diving history collection
• The sponge divers of Kalymnos
2005 No. 25
• Denmark’s last heavy diver with copper helmet
• General Assembly
• Diving history company in the Bella Centre
• The invention of the mechanical fish
• Air supply for helmet divers using Draeger diving machine
• Diving history collection
• Diving history at wreck exhibition 2005
• Hans Hass - a film
2005 No. 26
• The first helmet divers
• Exclusion to London 2005
• Junkers compressor
• Tribute - Kaj Jensen
• Diving history collection
• Diving Museum in Florida
• Tribute - Torben Suhr
• A 16 mm film came to the society
2005 No. 27
• Ancient Bell diving seminar in Belgium
• Open helmets in Denmark
• Ebeltoft Maritime Days
• Early bell diving in Denmark
• Oxygen device donated to the company
• Exhibition at the Frigate Jutland - Ebeltoft
• Baltic Sails 2005 in Elsinore
• Diving history collection
• Ordinance regarding diving, etc.
2006 No. 28
• Swiss diver Jørgen Bruun - a self-portrait
• Two bell diver stories
• General Assembly
• Diving in the Bella Centre
• Diving physics
• Diving history collection
• Wreck exhibition 2006
• Structuring of DSF´s archive
2006 No. 29
• Visits from HDS and SDHF
• The heroic diver
• Open helmet in the 50s
• Scott Hydro-Pak
• Diving history collection
• Donation from Nakskov Marine Association
• Diving Kattegat Centre
• Diving at the Frigate Jylland
2006 Jubilee No. DHS
• Preface by Commander Carsten Munk
• The development of diving
• Open helmets in Denmark
• Peter Hansen Hessing - “Hansen’s Patent”
• Heavy diving technique
• The Danish 2-bolt helmet (Hansen’s Patent)
• Heavy diving attack on the German cruiser Nuremberg April 1945
• Falck Rescue Corps - from helmet diver to swim-diver
• The Suez Crisis 1956 Switzerland’s salvage ship Sigyn´’s efforts to clear the Suez Canal 1956-57
• From Donald Duck to salvage the ship “Al Kuwait”
• The Nautiek Trophy
• Fenzy DC55 mixed gas appliance
• The helmet that came up from the depths
2007 No. 30
• Special price for the Society and the Frigate Jutland
• 10 year anniversary
• On the Seabed
• Wandering under the sea
• Henry Fleuss
• Historical diving, Kattegatcenteret
• Historical diving in Ebeltoft
• General Assembly
2007 No. 31
• The diver is dressed in leather clothes from head to toe
• Draeger cylinder sets
• Helmets of The Deep
• Watch out for exact replicas
• Historic diving in the Kattegat Centre
• The bibliophile pages
• Helmet register
• Hansen: Patent 100 years
• Ebeltoft Marine Days
