Scuba diving

Scuba Diving

By SarahLewis

  • Who Started Making Scuba Gear?

    Who Started Making Scuba Gear?
    Emile Gagnan and Jacques made the first wet suit for scuba diving.

  • Order that the Scuba Gear was created

    Order that the Scuba Gear was created
    In 1942, the team invented the wet suit and redesigned a car regulator and invented a demand regulator that would automatically fresh air when a diver breathed. A year later in 1943, Cousteau and Gagnan began selling the Aqua-Lung.

  • Next Things that were Made

    Next Things that were Made
    A 94 meter dive record in the Mediterranean Sea was made by Dumas equipped with an Aqua Lung regulator.The first Aqua Lung regulators were imported to the USA and the diving community quickly adopted this new, convenient device.

  • The Bathyscaphe

    The Bathyscaphe
    A completely self-contained new type of vessel called the bathyscaphe was designed by August Picard and his son Jacques to go deeper than any bathysphere.

  • 1950

    1950
    Robert Boyle observes the decompression sickness or “the bends”. After decompression of a snake he noticed gas bubbles in the eyes of a snake.

  • 1951

    1951
    Hans Hass published “Diving as Adventure”
    The Reserve Valve, later commonly known as “J” valve was developed.

  • 1952- 1954 "Silent World"

    1952- 1954 "Silent World"
    “Silent World” was released by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, and James Dugan. The television program Kingdom of the Sea starring Zale Parry is aired in the US. That same year Parry broke the depth record by diving to 64 meter near Catalina, CA. Her record attracted many female to scuba diving.