Photo #: NH 99832
USS Walke (Destroyer # 34)
Diving support activities on the ship's deck, while Gunner George
D. Stillson, USN, was on the bottom, during deep diving tests
conducted in Long Island Sound in late October and early November
1914. This photo may have been taken during Stillson's 23 October
dive, in which he reached the bottom in 88 1/2 feet of water.
Note Chief Petty Officer holding diver's air line, Passed Assistant
Surgeon George R.W. French (wearing communications headset and
microphone) talking to the diver by telephone, and recompression
chamber (with hatch closed) in the background.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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