The Journal of Diving History, Volume 23, Issue 2 (Number 83), 2015 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 08/10/2021 05:46:20 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35932 The Journal of Diving History Second Quarter 2015 • Volume 23 • Number 83 DACOR DEMA SHOW 2015 formulaTHE RIGHT FOR SUCCESS IN YOUR BUSINESS AND CAREER! November 4–7, 2015 | Orange County Convention Center | Orlando, Florida Ed Co In Educate Collaborate Innovate ENHANCE CONNECT SEE, TOUCH your business with thousands of AND FEEL knowledge and stay industry professionals firsthand the newest up-to-date on current to engage in discussion innovations from trends in the industry. and collaborate. hundreds of suppliers. Don’t miss these DEMA Show features: • First-Time Exhibitor Center • New Product Showcase • Freediving Resource Center • Scuba Demonstration Pool • Image Resource Center • Technical Diving Resource Center REGISTER NOW AT WWW.DEMASHOW.COM facebook.com/demashow | twitter.com/dema_show | linkedin.com/company/dema-org | youtube.com/user/DEMAAssn | instagram.com/demashow 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 WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONTINUED Tim Beaver Dick Long SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING: Dr. Peter B. 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Weed Kevin Lengyel Mike Pelissier HISTORICAL AFFILIATE OF: Second Quarter 2015, Volume 23, Number 83 The Journal of Diving History 1 COLUMNS THE JOURNAL 3 EDITORIAL Daron Says Goodbye and Bonnie Says Hello OF DIVING HISTORY By Leslie Leaney 39 THE SUBMARINE LENS Second Quarter 2015 • Volume 23 • Number 83 The Barcelona Underwater Camera Exhibition ISSN 1094-4516 by Franz Rothbrust 44 HELMETS OF THE DEEP Sportklimex, NEMO Prototype By Leslie Leaney FEATURES 46 IMAGES IN HISTORY Battleship Maine Diver Stereograph 6 DACOR By Gary Pilecki By Ed LaRochelle 47 COVER STORY More Deep Sea Divers By Peter Jackson As one of the pioneering American recreational sports diving 48 BOOKS IN DEPTH equipment manufacturers, DACOR The Divinhood: A Handbook for is a familiar name to the generation Collectors and Historians By Peter Jackson of divers who entered the sport Reviewed by Nyle C. Monday during the Sea Hunt years. Founded by Sam Davison Jr. in Illinois in 50 VINTAGE PATENTS 1954, DACOR produced a series of Hemenger’s Diving Armor, Part II two hose regulators that are now and The First U.S. Navy Diving and Salvage Ship collector’s items. In this article By James Vorosmarti, MD Ed LaRochelle records the various models of DACOR two hose 54 HELMET AUCTIONS regulators along with his research By Leslie Leaney into their serial numbers and 56 SCUBA AUCTIONS number manufactured. By Ed LaRochelle 58 CAMERA AUCTIONS By Sid Macken 61 HDS USA QUARTERLY REPORT By Sid Macken, President 15 The Mississippi River Find Part II THIS ISSUE By Don Creekmore 4 Buddy Ayers and Ed LaRochelle receive 2015 HDS Awards 5 Bonnie Toth appointed Managing editor of The Journal of Diving History In the prior issue Don Creekmore 22 The Year of the Military Diver at USN NDSTC at told of his adventures in locating Panama City, by Sid Macken the retired inventory of a family 24 Seabee Divers Awarded Prisoner of War Medal after owned commercial diving and 30 Years, by Bobbie Scholley, Captain (retired) US Navy salvage company located near 28 Deep-Sea Diving School, from Mechanics Illustrated, the Great Lakes. Many years ago January 1946 this Depression-era family had 31 The Charlie Smale, by Leslie G. Jacobs maintained and stored all their 34 Daring Death for Underwater Gold, by Charles E. Smale diving equipment ready for use 52 2015 International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame Inductees on the next job, but that “next 62 In Memory: Margaret Rule job” never came, and everything remained in storage. Finally, in 68 Classifieds 2014, the last living member of the ON THE COVER family, who had started diving in The cover photo is the DACOR the late 1940’s, decided to sell all of the company’s diving equipment. In model R-1 first generation series Part II of The Mississippi River Find, Don details the major items of diving 2500 regulator. The photograph is courtesy of Ed LaRochelle, equipment that he found in the family’s storage units. whose article on DACOR two hose regulators is our cover story in this issue. EDITORIAL The Journal of Diving History (Formerly Historical Diver Magazine, founded by Leslie Leaney in 1993) Daron Says Goodbye ISSN 1094-4516 The Official Publication of: The Historical Diving Society U.S.A. and Bonnie Says Hello The Historical Diving Society Canada rd s the Journal of Diving History moves through its 23 year MAGAZINE STAFF of consecutive publication we say a sad farewell to our Leslie Leaney, Publisher & Executive Editor Managing Editor and graphics guru, Daron Jones, who Nyle Monday, Senior Editor Bonnie Toth, Managing Editor A has accepted a full-time position at the Houston Chronicle. (Who are able to pay COLUMNISTS their staff a lot more money that the Peter Jackson, Ed LaRochelle, Leslie Leaney, Sid Macken, Nyle Monday, Gary Pilecki, HDS can!) Jim Vorosmarti Lee Selisky and I recruited Daron at the 2008 Underwater Intervention CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Steve Barsky, David Dekker, Peter Dick, conference in New Orleans. At the time Brett Gilliam, Ben Hellwarth, Michael Jung, Daron was working for Doyle Publishing Terry Maas, Janice Raber, Philippe Rousseau who produced the ADCI’s Underwater INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EDITORS magazine, and during the preceding years HDS USA — Leslie Leaney had become a good friend to the HDS. HDS CANADA — Phil Nuytten About that time ADCI had decided to change publishers, so Daron became available, and working with him, THE JOURNAL OF DIVING HISTORY we quickly converted the primarily black and white Historical Diver (ISSN 1094-4516) is published four times a year by the Historical Magazine, to the full-color Journal of Diving History.