Historical Diver, Volume 8, Issue 2 [Number 23], 2000 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 09/10/2021 10:19:21 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. 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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.