güéribo - 1-4-2015 at 04:10 PM
From National Geographic Magazine, October 1972:
"The shark lunged at me, but I knocked him on the nose with an oyster basket." A battered diving helmet on his knee, 79-year-old Salome Leon
reminisces about his days as a diver. Pearling was once the principal industry of La Paz, major city of Southern Baja, but it ended when an unknown
ailment killed the oysters in the 1940s. Salome, like many others, turned to fishing."
güéribo - 1-4-2015 at 04:12 PM
(Oh, and I do apologize . . . you can't quote me unless you remove the special characters from my screen name, until the site bug is fixed.)
BajaBlanca - 1-4-2015 at 07:26 PM
the weight on that helmet must be ridiculous!
vandenberg - 1-4-2015 at 07:36 PM
Maybe showing my ignorance, but don't divers that service the platforms in the North Sea still wear those diving suits and bells??
TMW - 1-5-2015 at 12:52 PM
Here is some info on suits and platform diving systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_diving_suit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
