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The Enduring Historical Diver, Volume 8, Issue 2 [Number 23], 2000 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 03/10/2021 21:01:26 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/30865 The Official Publication of The Historical Diving Societies of Australia & S.E. Asia, Canada, Germany, Mexico and the U.S.A Volume 8 Issue 2 Spring 2000 The Enduring Ama • Saint Simon Sicard's 1853 Rebreather • Niagara 2000 • Person Helmets of Brazil • • Daniel David-French Diving Historian • Rebreathers at DEMA • • Siebe Helmets • Back in the 50s • HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY USA A PUBLIC BENEFIT NONPROFIT CORPORATION 340 S KELLOGG AVE STE E, GOLETA CA 93117, U.S.A. PHONE: 805-692-0072 FAX: 805-692-0042 e-mail: [email protected] or HTTP://www.hds.org/ Corporate Members ADVISORY BOARD Sponsors D.E.S.C.O. DIVERS ALERT NETWORK (DAN) Dr. Sylvia Earle Prof. Hans Hass DIVING SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL Dr. Peter B. Bennett Lotte Hass DIVE COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL, INC. 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Asia Scaph '50, France The Historical Diving Society ltalia Undersea Heritage and Exploration Society, USA The Historical Diving Society Canada 2 HISTORICAL DIVER Vol. 8 Issue 2 Spring 2000 HIS TORI ALDIVER Volume 8 Issue 2 ISSN 1094-4516 Sulkpring 2000 HISTORICAL DIVER MAGAZINE CONTENT PAGE ISSN 1094-4516 4 Editorial THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF 5 E.R. Cross THE HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY U.S.A. 6 ADCAwards DIVING HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF 7 In The News AUSTRALIA, S.E. ASIA 8 New Members HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY CANADA 9 Women Divers Hall of Fame HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY GERMANY 11 Aquanaut/Hydronaut 2000 HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY MEXICO by Ed Cargile HISTORICAL DIVER MAGAZINE EDITORS 12 In the Mail Leslie Leaney, Editor 13 DHS Australia S.E. Asia Andy Lentz, Production Editor 14 HDS Canada. Back in the 50s Steve Barsky, Copy Editor 16 HDS Germany Julie Simpson, Assistant Copy Editor 17 HDS Mexico INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EDITORS 18 The Enduring Ama HDSUSA by Joe Hlebica Leslie Leaney 23 Saint Simon-Sicard's Rebreather, 1849-1853 by Daniel David DHS Australia and S. E. Asia 27 Daniel David, French diving historian Peter Fields and Bob Ramsay 28 HDS/DEMA History of Rebreathers Exhibit, part II by Sharon Readey and Kent Rockwell HDS Canada 30 Niagara 2000 Virginia Nuytten and Phil Nuytten by Tim Cashman HDSGermany 32 20,000 Drachmas Under the Sea Thomas Kleeman and Michael Jung by Tom Burgess 34 Helmets of the Deep. HDSMexico Charles Person, Sao Paulo, Brazil Manuel Lazcano by Leslie Leaney HISTORICAL DIVER 36 Siebe Closed Helmets of the 19th Century (ISSN 1094-4516) is published four times a year by the Historical Diving Society USA, a Non-Profit by Bob Ramsay Corporation. 340 S Kellogg Ave Ste E, Goleta CA, 93117, USA. ©2000 Historical Diving Society USA. All Rights Reserved. 38 Classic Diving Equipment Groups Tel. 805-692-0072 Fax 805-692-0042. HISTORICAL DIVER is compiled by Leslie Leancy and Andy Lentz. The content is affected by 40 Auction Report various elements. The Society only guarantees that each issue will contain no fewer than 24 pages. by Leslie Leaney ADVERTISING INQUIRIES should be directed to: Advertising. Historical Diver. 340 S Kellogg Ave Ste E. Goleta CA. 93117. USA. Tel. 805-692-0072 41 Ye Olde Master Diver's Locker, Min-0-Lung Fax 805-692-0042 CONTRIBUTIONS: WE WELCOME CONTRIBUTIONS ON ANY HISTORICAL DIVING 42 Information Wanted. SUBJECT. Submissions and contributions on floppy disk are preferred (3.5'' Windows/DOS text Aluminum Face Mask from HDM #11 format or Apple Macintosh formats). Please send a typed hard copy in addition to any disk. Typed manuscripts are also welcome. Illustrations accompanying text are appreciated. Submissions should 43 In Memory. Bernice McKenzie be sent to: Editor, Historical Diver, 340 S Kellogg Ave Ste E, Goleta CA, 93117, USA. If you have access to e-maiL contributions can be sent to [email protected]. by Ric Koellner THE OPINIONS AND VIEWS EXPRESSED are those of the respective authors and are not 44 In Memory. Al Hanson necessarily the opinions and views of the Historical Diving Society USA. by Don Wright 45 In Memory. E.D. Buie DISCLAIMER Diving is a potentially hazardous practice and if practiced incorrectly or with incomplete by AI Betters and Leslie Leaney planning and procedures can expose a person to considerable risks including serious 46 Classifieds injury or death. It requires specialized training, equipment and experience. HIS1DRI­ CAL DIVER is not intended as a substitute for the above or for the diver to abandon common sense in pursuit of diving activities beyond his or her abilities. HIS1DRICAL DIVER is intended as a source of information on various aspects of diving, not as a substitute for proper training and experience. For training in diving. contact a national certification agency. The reader is advised that all the elements of hazard and risk asso­ ON THE COVER ciated with diving cannot be brought out within the scope of this text. The individuals, One section of a three-part block print by the 18th cen­ companies and organizations presented in HISTORICAL DIVER are not liable for dam­ age or injury including death which may result from any diving activities, with respect to tury master Kitagawa Utamaro depicting Ama divers with information contained herein. an abalone. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. HISTORICAL DIVER Vol. 8 Issue 2 Spring 2000 3 Editorial ity. In an international diving community often lacking in focus, harmony, and "one planet" vision, the endorsement ofE.R. Cross It is with great sadness that we record the passing four influ­ seemed to be the international seal of approval accepted by all ential Americans who all made significant contributions in their passionate divers. To acknowledge and honor his numerous con­ chosen fields of diving. tributions to diving, we established the HDSUSA E.R. Cross Bernice McKenzie was the subject of our first interview in Award. the premiere issue of Historical Diver and was THE one lady Ever since I knew him, E.R. always took the subject of div­ that every successful commercial diver in the last half of the 20th ing very seriously and our long distance conversations benefited century had dealt with or heard of. The DESCO "Boss Lady" had not only me but also the content of this publication. I will miss a singularly unique career in a field totally dominated by mascu­ him. I will miss those long telephone conversations when he linity. would dispense his wisdom and opinion with a humility belying For a brief time in WWII, E. D. Buie worked at DES CO with his monumental achievements. I will miss his sharp and inquisi­ Bernice and developed one of the most unusual pieces of diving tive mind that could, and sometimes would, make me account equipment ever to be produced in America; an anti-magnetic re­ for almost everything I had written or printed in an issue. I will circulating diving system for mine disposal. miss the little lift I would get when I heard his voice on my AI Hansen became one of the most respected divers in his answer machine; when he would call up just to make sure I was field and even managed to get his wife, Norma, involved in his doing okay or ask me to take care of a little chore for him.
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