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Peerless Respirator Save Money, Save Time in Line Buy Your Advance Tickets At The Journal of Diving History, Volume 24, Issue 1 (Number 86), 2016 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 10/10/2021 08:31:59 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35935 First Quarter 2016 • Volume 24 • Number 86 Ohgushi’s Peerless Respirator Save Money, Save Time in Line Buy your advance tickets at www.scubashow.com VISIT THE HD BOOTH #115S AT Long Beach Convention Center June 4-5, 2016 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates, sneak peeks, door prize updates, show specials, and more Scuba Show fun! www.facebook.com/ScubaShow @ScubaShow Save Money, Save Time in Line 10th HDS GWS Buy your advance tickets at www.scubashow.com October 10-15 and 15-20, 2016 Isle de Guadalupe, Baja, Mexico WITH SPECIAL GUEST ERNIE BROOKS II VISIT THE HD BOOTH #115S AT Come on down Señor Ernie. We’re all waiting for ya. Long Beach Convention Center June 4-5, 2016 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates, sneak peeks, door prize updates, show specials, and more Scuba Show fun! www.facebook.com/ScubaShow @ScubaShow Aboard the 140' NAUTILUS Belle Amie LIVEABOARD www.NautilusExplorer.com Guadalupe Island is located 210 miles south of the Mexican border and 100 miles out to sea. This very remote island is home to a small Mexican village of commercial lobster and abalone fisherman and a resident population of white sharks. Additional white sharks migrate through. We’ll be diving in 5 cages. We’ve had as many as 14 different sharks in three days and as many as five sharks around the cages at one time. The water is warmer (around 70 degrees) and visibility over 100’ is common. This is our 10th annual HDSGWS charter and all proceeds are donated to the Historical Diving Society. Contact Ed Stetson at [email protected] ©2015 Dan Orr. All Rights Reserved First Quarter 2016, Volume 24, Number 86 The Journal of Diving History 1 THE JOURNAL OF DIVING HISTORY FIRST QUARTER 2016 • VOLUME 24 • NUMBER 86 ISSN 1094-4516 FEATURES Ohgushi Peerless Respirator Key To The Treasury Of The Deep By Nyle C. Monday OHGUSHI’S PEERLESS RESPIRATORS 8 The development of self contained diving has roots in many regions 16 Historical researchers are seldom happier than when they and none, so far, more removed from the main tract of European discover an original document from their research target. In and American development than Japan, where Ohgushi’s Peerless the case if Ohgushi’s Peerless Respirator, the Holy Grail for Respirator was designed and manufactured early last century. English language researchers has been, to date, one single This system was not a one-off, but produced in surviving copy of the Tokyo Submarine Industrial numbers, exported, and actively used into the Company’s booklet titled Key To The Treasury Of The 1950’s. Like its French predecessor developed Deep. Ohgushi’s Peerless Respirators. Unrivalled by Rouquayrol and Denayrouze, it incorporated In The World. Here the persistence search of Nyle a surface supply element, which allowed much Monday has finally reaped rewards, not only for Nyle, wider usage than its scuba abilities. The but also for all scuba researchers, as he has been Journal’s Senior Editor Nyle Monday presents able to reproduce, in print, the complete original some of his two-plus decades of research into English-language catalog. this little known milestone on the path to our underwater independence. COLUMNS THIS ISSUE 4 42 54 22 EDITORIAL THE HISTORY OF MANNED VINTAGE PATENTS The Cayman Islands Announces Japanese and French UNDERSEA HABITATS Bembina and Durand’s 2016 International Scuba Diving Scuba Anniversaries by Kevin Hardy and Ian Koblick “Micro-Submarine” Hall of Fame Inductees by Leslie Leaney Ed Link’s Submerged Portable by James Vorosmarti, MD Inflatable Dwelling (SPID) By Dr. Joseph B. MacInnis 64 6 Adapted from Scientific American, 56 IN MEMORIAM IN THE MAIL March 1966 HELMET AUCTIONS Paul Linaweaver by Leslie Leaney Dick Bonin 24 48 Jack W. Lavanchy THE SUBMARINE LENS COVER STORY 58 Kurt Schaefer’s Cameras French Flimsies SCUBA AUCTIONS by Sid Macken by Peter Jackson by Ed LaRochelle First Quarter 2016 • Volume 24 • Number 86 Visiting Dr. Kurt Schaefer By Franz Rothbrust, President, HDS Germany, Foreword by Sid Macken 50 60 BOOKS IN DEPTH CAMERA AUCTIONS The Edison Effect by Sid Macken 32 A Professor Bradshaw Mystery HELMETS OF THE DEEP Written by Bernadette Pajer KIMURA Reviewed by Sid Macken 62 Ohgushi’s Castellated four-panel bonnet, Japan HDS USA QUARTERLY REPORT Peerless Respirator by Leslie Leaney by Sid Macken 52 ON THE COVER IMAGES IN HISTORY An original Ohgushi demand mask 36 Student Diver Photograph that was central to the performance of the Peerless Respirator. ©2015. VINTAGE SCUBA by Gary Pilecki The International Scuba Diving Hall Half A Mile Down With Scuba of Fame. All Rights Reserved. by C. P. Gilmore Photograph by Trent Schultz. MAGAZINE STAFF & COLUMNISTS... Leslie Leaney Nyle C. Monday Bonnie Toth Kevin Hardy Peter Jackson Ed LaRochelle Sid Macken Gary Pilecki James Vorosmarti, MD Publisher, Executive Editor Senior Editor Managing Editor The Journal of Diving History (Formerly Historical Diver Magazine, founded by Leslie Leaney in 1993) ISSN 1094-4516 The Official Publication of: The Historical Diving Society U.S.A. THE JOURNAL OF DIVING The Historical Diving Society Canada HISTORY MAGAZINE STAFF Leslie Leaney, Publisher & Executive Editor P.O. Box 2837, Santa Maria, CA 93457, USA Nyle Monday, Senior Editor P. 805-934-1660 F. 805-934-3855 Bonnie Toth, Managing Editor [email protected] • www.hds.org COLUMNISTS The Journal of Diving History is the official quarterly Peter Jackson, Ed LaRochelle, Leslie Leaney, Sid Macken, Nyle Monday, Gary Pilecki, membership publication of the Historical Diving Society, Jim Vorosmarti a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational corporation formed in 1992, with members in over 40 countries. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Steve Barsky, David Dekker, Peter Dick, Brett Gilliam, Ben Hellwarth, Michael Jung, Terry Maas, Janice Raber, Philippe Rousseau JOURNAL SPONSORS PER ANNUM Copper Sponsor $1,250 (1/8 page) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EDITORS HDS USA — Leslie Leaney Bronze Sponsor $2,500 (1/4 page) HDS CANADA — Phil Nuytten Silver Sponsor $3,750 (1/2 page) Gold Sponsor $5,000 (Full page) THE JOURNAL OF DIVING HISTORY Platinum Sponsor $10,000 (Inside covers) (ISSN 1094-4516) is published four times a year by the Historical Diving Society, a Non-Profit Corporation, PO BOX 2837, Santa Ma- ria, CA 93457, USA. ©2015 Historical Diving Society. All Rights Reserved. Tel. 805-934-1660 ext. 3, Fax 805-934-3855. The Journal of Diving History is compiled by Ed LaRochelle, Leslie ANNUAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS Leaney, Sid Macken, and Nyle Monday. The content is affected by var- ious elements. The Society only guarantees that each issue will contain INDIVIDUAL no fewer than 24 pages. 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