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The Journal of Diving History, Volume 23, Issue 1 (Number 82), 2015 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 04/10/2021 06:15:15 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/32902 First Quarter 2015 • Volume 23 • Number 82 • 23 Quarter 2015 • Volume First Diving History The Journal of The Mississippi River Find Find River Mississippi The The Journal of Diving History First Quarter 2015, Volume 23, Number 82 THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FIND This issue is dedicated to the memory of HDS Advisory Board member Lotte Hass 1928 - 2015 HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY USA A PUBLIC BENEFIT NONPROFIT CORPORATION PO BOX 2837, SANTA MARIA, CA 93457 USA TEL. 805-934-1660 FAX 805-934-3855 e-mail: [email protected] or on the web at www.hds.org PATRONS OF THE SOCIETY HDS USA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ernie Brooks II Carl Roessler Dan Orr, Chairman James Forte, Director Leslie Leaney Lee Selisky Sid Macken, President Janice Raber, Director Bev Morgan Greg Platt, Treasurer Ryan Spence, Director Steve Struble, Secretary Ed Uditis, Director ADVISORY BOARD Dan Vasey, Director Bob Barth Jack Lavanchy Dr. George Bass Clement Lee Tim Beaver Dick Long WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONTINUED Dr. Peter B. Bennett Krov Menuhin SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING: Dick Bonin Daniel Mercier FOUNDING CORPORATIONS Ernest H. Brooks II Joseph MacInnis, M.D. Texas, Inc. Jim Caldwell J. Thomas Millington, M.D. Best Publishing Mid Atlantic Dive & Swim Svcs James Cameron Bev Morgan DESCO Midwest Scuba Jean-Michel Cousteau Phil Newsum Kirby Morgan Diving Systems NJScuba.net David Doubilet Phil Nuytten Dr. Sylvia Earle Torrance Parker Marine Surplus Supply, UK North Coast Divers, Inc. Rodney Fox Zale Parry Oceaneering Int’l, West Coast Pacific Comm. Diving Supply Lad Handelman Carl Roessler Santa Barbara City College R & D Technology Services Bob Hollis Dr. Ross Saxon Searchwise Ltd. Mike Hughes Lee Selisky Hannes Keller Robert Sténuit T N J Marine, Inc. Ian Koblick Valerie Taylor Webb Diving Services Stan Waterman SPONSORS Aquala REMEMBERED FOR THEIR SERVICE Aqueos DIVE STORES Scott Carpenter (1925-2013) Dr. Christian J. 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Thornton Bamboo Reef Enterprises Long Beach Public Library Woody Kenney James Vorosmarti, M.D. Bowman Diving Corp. Mendocino County Library, Robert & Claudia Kirby Gene & Elizabeth Webb Leslie Leaney Robert P. Weed DECA Diving Ft. Bragg Robert & Caroline Leaney Captain Ed White DRS Rancho Palos Verdes Center Dryden Diving Co., Inc. Library Hypertec, Inc. Redondo Beach Public LIFETIME MEMBERS Idelson Gnocchi Publisher Library Dr. Sally Bauer Jim Mermis Rich Riley JS Marine Comm. Diving San Pedro Public Library W.J.Castle Jon Mark Meshejian Kent Rockwell Marine Surplus Supply Torrance Civic Library Robert Dion Scott Naughton Chip Scarlett Marion Hill Associates, Inc. Earl Gerrard Phil Newsum John Skelton Martha Watkins Gilkes Mary Patricia O’Malley Steve Struble McGriff Seibels & Williams of Bret Gilliam Charlie Orr Ed Uditis Capt. Jon Hazelbaker Ace Parnell Bill Wissel Dr. Felix Huang Nestor Palmero Robert P. Weed THE SOCIETY IS OFFICIAL Kevin Lengyel Mike Pelissier HISTORICAL AFFILIATE OF: First Quarter 2015, Volume 23, Number 82 The Journal of Diving History 1 COLUMNS THE JOURNAL 3 EDITORIAL A Farewell to First Ladies OF DIVING HISTORY By Leslie Leaney 18 VINTAGE SCUBA First Quarter 2015 • Volume 23 • Number 82 Diving on the 4’s. Looking Back to Celebrate Diving’s Milestones ISSN 1094-4516 By Ed La Rochelle 28 THE SUBMARINE LENS Seeing with Both Eyes FEATURES By Sid Macken The Mississippi River Find 38 HELMETS OF THE DEEP 8 A Small Siebe Gorman & Co. Patent By Don Creekmore 12-bolt Helmet By David Dekker The pursuit of diving history and the artifacts that are connected to it are a 42 IMAGES IN HISTORY never-ending journey into the future. Merritt & Chapman Diver There is much that is not known By Gary Pilecki and that will remain a challenge for future generations to discover. As the 43 COVER STORY information technology revolution Skin Diving for Youth continues to expand the search has By Peter Jackson fortunately become much easier than before. In pursuit of his business affairs, HDS member Don Creekmore 44 VINTAGE PATENTS received a traditional telephone call Hemenger’s Diving Armor By James Vorosmarti, MD at his office that would, in his words, “forever enhance my knowledge of historic commercial diving in North American 57 HDS USA QUARTERLY REPORT rivers and lakes.” The call was the New Raffle Prize and Fun at UI first step for Don a journey that uncovered the history of a family of By Sid Macken, President divers stretching from the World War I era through to the 1990s. By agreement with the family, Don has not divulged their family name. The equipment the family had used through the 20th century was still in working condition and was stored in a garage. For Don, it was an historical find of a lifetime. HIS SSUE Klingert Revisited: Special Report for HDS USA T I 24 4 In the News By M. Sc. Karina Kowalska 7 Historic USN Greenstone Photo 33 Celebrating the Year of the Military Diver During the past year members of HDS Poland Daredevils of the Deep, Popular Mechanics, 1944 embarked on a project aiming at rediscovering 46 HDS Great White Shark Dive 2014 with Zale Parry Karl Heinrich Klingert, a talented inventor who By Dan Orr lived at the turn of XVIII century in the town of 50 Helmet Auctions: by Leslie Leaney Wrocław, once known as Breslau when it was 52 Scuba Auctions: by Ed LaRochele under Prussian occupation. For many divers Klingert’s name associates with a drawing of a 54 Camera Auctions: by Sid Macken diver who made a successful diving attempt in 60 In Memoriam: Lotte Hass 1797 in river Odra, in a strange shaped suit and 63 In Memoriam: Dr. Eugenie Clark with a wood-chuck in his hand. Klingert, among 68 Classifieds the others, invented a novel type of diving gear, including an open helmet, a container with ON THE COVER History of Diving Journal The The Journal of compressed air and an underwater lamp. Diving History First Quarter 2015 • Volume 23 • Number 82 The cover photo shows a 1950 HDS Poland received letters supporting our project from various photograph of a mid-American 23, Number 82 Volume Quarter 2015, First Historical Diving Societies, and promised to keep them posted father-and-son diving team with an assortment of their company regarding their research. The promise became particularly relevant and diving equipment, plus a couple THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FIND valuable when their research uncovered new information about Klingert of vintage automobiles. The related to specific countries. Having already prepared an article which photograph is courtesy of Don discusses Klingert’s connection to the United Kingdom, which will be Creekmore, whose article on the family is our cover story in this published in the UK’s Historical Diving Times, HDS Poland are now issue. pleased to share what we they discovered about Klingert’s connection to the United States. The Mississippi River Find EDITORIAL The Journal of Diving History (Formerly Historical Diver Magazine, founded by Leslie Leaney in 1993) Farewell to First Ladies ISSN 1094-4516 The Official Publication of: ne of the sadder parts of our work at the Society and the The Historical Diving Society U.S.A. The Historical Diving Society Canada Journal is saying farewell to the pioneers whose contributions established the post World War II science, sport, and MAGAZINE STAFF underwater imagery, of diving. The majority of these pioneering roles Leslie Leaney, Publisher & Executive Editor O Nyle Monday, Senior Editor were filled by men, as it was generally a “Man’s World” enterprise as a Daron Jones, Managing Editor new world order was established from the devastations of war. There were however, several females who were to become the COLUMNISTS Peter Jackson, Ed LaRochelle, Leslie Leaney, pioneers of the new underwater Sid Macken, Nyle Monday, Gary Pilecki, world, and in this issue we pay a Jim Vorosmarti farewell tribute to two of them who CONTRIBUTING WRITERS started their diving careers before Steve Barsky, David Dekker, Peter Dick, 1950: Lotte Hass and Dr.