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The First Treasure Divers - The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame (Paperback)
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The First Treasure Divers - The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame (Paperback)
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List price R377
Loot Price R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
You Save R33 (9%)
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The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally
corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete
misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving
helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book and the answer
you will find will almost certainly be wrong. The First Treasure
Divers reveals the true and fascinating story. It blows away the
myths and deliberate misinformation that have crept into the
historical record. Thanks to the painstaking research the author
has carried out over the past 25 years, the falsehoods are peeled
away to unveil the true, definitive account. It follows the lives
of two brothers as they struggle to turn their newly-invented
diving helmet to advantage and how they wrestle with apathetic and
even hostile authorities for recognition of their invention. It
thunders through sunken treasure adventures to the heroism and
horrors of the Crimean War. The impact of the invention of the
diving helmet is immense. In the 180 years since the Deane brothers
carried out the first ever commercial helmet dive off the Isle of
Wight on the south coast of England, the diving business has
expanded to a global industry with an annual turnover in excess of
$3,000,000,000. From another point of view, the life-support
technology developed in the diving industry provided the knowledge
for keeping the pioneering, high altitude pilots alive, which in
turn evolved into the life-support systems of the astronauts who
walked on the moon.
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