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1850 Green
?Diving Armor"
used air to 158?
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1880 Fleuss
Rebreather used by Lambert in flooded tunnel at 60?
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1905 USN
Manual for
divers air to 200"
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1915 USN
working air dives 304?
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1918 Ogushi
respirator to 324" on air
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1927 USN EDU
HeO2 capability
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1935 Behnke
USN studies
1-4 ata Oxygen
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1937 Nohl
supported by
Dr. End dives to 420" on HeO2 in Lake Michigan
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1944 Surface
supplied Science diver
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1948
Aqualung marketed in U.S. Rene's in Westwood, Ca.
gets 10 units
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1949
Limbaugh and Rechnitzer
using Aqualungs at UCLA for scientific diving
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1950
Limbaugh and
Rechnitzer move to Scripps
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1951 First
Scientific Diving
Course at Scripps
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1954 Scripps
diving program lists
4 of 60 Science divers certified to
250" depth, tables
to 300?
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1955 L.A.
County U/W
Instructors course
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1956 Royal
Navy dives HeO2 to 600?
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1957 Sea
Hunt begins
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1961 Sea Lab
I 11 days at 192?
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1963 USN
Extreme exposure air tables to 300?
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1968 Gruener
and
Watson to 437" on air
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1969 Sea Lab
III at 600"
Fatality on bottom
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1973 USN PO2
1.6 ata 30 min. Emergency 2.0 -30
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1976
USNLight weight
HeO2 gear to 300"
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1982
Scientific Diver exemption from OSHA Regs.
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1983 The
Edge electronic
dive computer
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1985 OSHA
Guidelines for
Scientific Diving
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1989 Exley
dives to 881" on
trimix in cave
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1990 NOAA
PO2 1.6 ata for
45 min. emergency 120 min. or 2 ata for 30 min.
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1997 Pyle
making closed circuit
dives >300" dive time of 4:12 at 400?
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1999 Andrews
air dive to 513?
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2001 Hall
makes film with dives to 325?-400" using closed circuit, mixed gas. 179 day
project