Standard diving dress
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Standard diving dress, also known as hard-hat or copper hat equipment, deep sea diving suit, or heavy gear, is a type of diving suit that was formerly used for all relatively deep underwater work that
Diver in standard diving dress, Ožbalt, Slovenia (1958)
1842 sketch of the Deane brothers' diving helmet, the first practical surface-supplied diving equipment.
Air supplied from the boat by manually operated pump
Cave diving equipment from 1935 in the museum at Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset
Diving helmet
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A diving helmet is a rigid head enclosure with a breathing gas supply used in underwater diving. They are worn mainly by professional divers engaged in surface-supplied diving, though some models can
Standard diving dress
…diving applications. Standard diving dress has largely been superseded by lighter and more comfortable equipment. Standard diving dress consists of a diving helmet made from copper and brass or bronze, clamped over a watertight gasket to a waterproofed canvas suit, an air hose from a surface-supplied manually…
Copper and brass three bolt Soviet diving helmet.
US Navy Diver using Kirby Morgan 37 diving helmet
Display of diving helmets from several countries