“I love the smell of neoprene in the morning. It smells like” … disaster? Surfacing from the first dive of the day we watched our boat slide across the South China Sea toward the distant horizon, the Vietnamese skipper blissfully… Read More ›
salvage diving
Send down a diver – Part Two
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth and into the early years of the twentieth centuries, the pace in successful deep diving had been set by civilian divers such as Lambert and his contemporaries. Relying more on guts than on… Read More ›
Send down a diver – Part One
The days of wooden ships and iron men may have faded from memory but the legacy of early attempts to rescue precious cargoes from sunken wrecks and to free the crews of sunken submarines lives on. Throughout the centuries the… Read More ›