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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99831

USS Walke
(Destroyer # 34)

Sailors pose with a diving helmet, weighted diver's boots and a recompression chamber installed on the ship's deck for deep diving tests conducted in Long Island Sound during late October and early November 1914. A dive made on 3 November 1914 reached the then-record depth of 274 feet.
Note air lines running from the valve, at left, to the recompression chamber.

Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 7 December 2004
Caption corrected and image reposted 25 January 2007