Siebe Gorman Salvus
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The Siebe Gorman Salvus is a light oxygen rebreather for industrial use or in shallow diving. Its duration on a filling is 30 to 40 minutes. It was very common in Britain during World War II and for a
CGI image: 2 views of a diver wearing a Siebe Gorman Salvus rebreather
CGI image. 2 workmen with Siebe Gorman Salvus rebreathers set off to clean up a building after fumigation.
Knockshinnoch disaster
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The Knockshinnoch disaster was a mining accident that occurred in September 1950 in the village of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Liquid peat and moss flooded pit workings, trapping more than a hund
Siebe Gorman Salvus
…sport divers in Britain and Australia in the 1950s before aqualungs became readily affordably available. At the coalmine rescue on 7–9 September 1950 at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery near New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, 115 trapped miners were equipped with Salvuses borrowed from fire stations around to bring them out through a…
Memorials to the miners who died in the Knockshinnoch disaster.