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Herodotus, gentlemen.
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In 450 BC, the historian
mentions the use...
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of a submarine apparatus
with war purposes.
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Year 400 of our age, a group
of Oriental women divers...
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used stones
for speeding their descent.
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They trained to search for
pearls, shells and seaweeds.
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The first diving bells.
Year 1640.
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1866.Frenchman Rouquayrol
patents the first inbuilt...
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regulator for open gear.
Unfortunately, it failed...
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due to technologic limitations.
3 divers died while testing it.
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1937, Siebe's diving suit.
The first that really works.
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Air was supplied from the
surface using a long hose,
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resembling an umbilical cord.
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The artificial lung, invented
by the Argentinean army.
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In 1944 engineer
Emile Gagnan and Captain...
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau develop
the first efficient regulator,
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which cuts the cord with the
surface and allows the user...
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to move with freedom.
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We will now pass from
theory to practice...
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Those who are leaving tomorrow
for the diving baptism please...