First scuba instruction manual?

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Blueskys4ever

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I have found a book "An Introduction to safe scuba diving" by Paul Hennessy. It is copyright 1962 by Seacraft Industries Wilmington Mass. The equipment pictured in this book is antique.

On the inside back cover is glued a newspaper clipping photograph of the USS Seadragon, first nuclear powered submarine to visit Japan,in Sasebo harbor.

This book was once owned by James E. Maley of Rochester, NY.

Does anyone else have a copy of this?

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Don't have a copy, but there was a looseleaf instruction manual put together by Dr. Conrad Limbaugh of Scripps and others to instruct the folks in the Los Angeles County Dept. of Parks and Recreation Underwater Unit back about 1953. I believe a later version was printed in book form, so that would undoubtedly pre-date the book you have.

I started diving the winter of 1961-62 so please let's not refer to the equipment of that era (or those of us who wore it) as "antique!" Just teasing.
 
There was a 1949 manual, Plongee En Scaphandre, by Tailliez, Dumas, Cousteau, Dumas and others, which covers diving with the Aqualung. It was sold here as The Complete Manual Of Freediving (Putnam, 1957).
 

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