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Description of a Diving Machine
Consisting of Description of a Diving Machine suitable for use in rivers (1797) and A Brief Supplement to the History and Description of a Diving Machine, together with the explanation of a lantern or lamp which burns in any vitiated air, and in water (1822)
by Karl Heinrich
Klingert Karl Heinrich Klingert was an ingenious inventor and mechanic, but an unlikely designer of diving equipment as he lived several hundred miles from the sea, in Eastern Europe. Nevertheless at the end of the eighteenth century he invented and constructed several items of diving apparatus, the last of which was an “open’ helmet that also made use of a cylinder of compressed air from which the diver was able to breathe independently from the surface. Klingert’s designs, however, were not put into practice despite their publication in two of his books: “Description of a Diving Machine suitable for use in rivers” (1797) and “A Brief Supplement to the History and Description of a Diving Machine, together with the explanation of a lantern or lamp which burns in any vitiated air, and in water” (1822). The “open” helmet was re-invented shortly afterwards and led to a revolution in diving. Much later the use of compressed air became commonplace. This publication represents the first time that the complete text and illustrations of Klingert’s two books, which describe in detail his pioneering equipment, are published in English. There is also an authoritative 11 page introduction written by Historical Diver Magazine’s German editor, Michael Jung, greatly expanding on his article in issue number 16, Summer 1998. Published by the HDS in UK and limited to 500 copies. Case bound with dust jacket, 51 pages, with illustrations.
Price $30 plus $9 domestic p&p. CA res. add 7.75% Sales tax. For overseas P&P contact the HDS office at hds@hds.org or Fax 805-938-0550

Divers In Time
Australia’s Untold History
by Jeff Maynard
This is the latest book from HDS member Jeff Maynard, and follows his successful title Niagara’s Gold. The content primarily focuses on Australia diving history and equipment, although references to USA and UK divers and equipment are present. There is a large section on that most beloved area of Australian diving history, The Pearl Divers, with research into its origins and characters. The Inventors chapter records the Kelley Suit, the Buchcanan-Gordon Suit, inventions of Yasukichi Murakami, the American Victor Berge mask, Clifford Anti Paralysis Suit and others. Internationally notable divers such as Johnno Johnson, Noel Monkman, Ted Eldred, and Maurice Batterham surface in the text, as do items of Australian manufactured equipment like the Porpoise scuba regulator and the Robison diving helmets of WWII. Some interesting regional revelations such as Captain Dale’s human torpedo of 1905 are included, and there is a chapter on the history of the Royal Australian Navy Divers which includes some interesting frogman information. There are several historical helmet diving photos that have probably not been seen in America before, and reproduced at a size sufficient that readers can make out most of the details. Other chapters include The Salvage Divers and The Scuba Divers. Sections titled “A Beginners Guide to Helmet Spotting,” “Helmets - Real, Replicas and Rip Offs,” and “Where to see our diving history on display” are not found in any other books and certainly add to the character of this most welcome addition to international diving history. Softbound, 159 pages, b&w photos, illustrations, prints, bibliography, index.
Price $32 domestic p&p $9, CA res add 7.75% sales tax. For overseas p&p contact the HDS office at hds@hds.org , or Fax 805-938-0550

THE HISTORY of RUSSIAN DIVING
An HDS Russia publication:
Includes diving history from the earliest times and much Russian diving history that has never before been published in English. Soft bound, 82 pages, black and white illustrations, Russian and English language. Limited to 999 numbered copies.
Price $10.00 plus $4.50 domestic S&H; Overseas contact hds@hds.org CA residents add 7.75% sales tax
All proceeds go to HDS Russia.

The History of Russian Diving, Issue 2
The Historical Diving Society of Russia has published the second issue of its journal, The History of Russian Diving, and once again readers will find it to be a valuable addition to the body of literature in this field. Any reader is sure to learn a great deal of new information in this bilingual thirty-six page, soft-cover magazine. In format, the HDS Russia publication differs somewhat from those of its sister societies that publish on a standard number of issues per year. Rather than a magazine-style publication with a number of articles on unrelated subjects, the Russian journal takes a form more like a monograph, with the bulk of the publication dealing with a single topic. This allows the authors to go into much more depth than a typical magazine article would allow. This approach worked well for Russia in its first issue and works just as well in this, their second publication. The subject of this second publication will be a familiar one to readers of HDSUSA’s Historical Diver Magazine, as it centers around the history of the Japanese Ohgushi Respirator. Most of what little was known about this fascinating equipment until relatively recently was set forth in a 1970 article published in the British dive magazine Triton. In Historical Diver No. 8 (1996), Nyle Monday expanded on that information with material drawn from Japanese and other sources. In one of those unforeseeable quirks of fate, half way around the world, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dr. Alexander Sledkov happened upon the latter article and recognize the Japanese gear as something used in Russia as well. Dr. Sledkov, the founder of the Historical Diving Society- Russia, and Mr. Monday met in 2002 at the HDSUSA’s 10th Anniversary Conference in Santa Barbara and began a collaboration which resulted in this publication. Members who attended the 2003 Rally in Key Largo, Florida, got a preview of the Japanese side of this story, but there is still much new material to be found in this journal. As was the case with Dr. Sledkov’s first effort, the reader will not only learn a great deal about the history of diving, but also gain a great deal of insight into the workings of the government of the former Soviet Union. Of considerable interest in this respect was the formation of EPRON (the Expedition for Special Purpose Undersea Works) in 1923 under the auspices of the Unified State Political Board (OGPU), which would become the KGB in 1954. EPRON became a major training institution for divers in the Soviet Union, and eventually was incorporated into the military establishment when WWII created a gigantic demand for the salvage and rescue skills of its members. Eventually this organization was disbanded, but following the failure of Russian rescue efforts in the recent tragic loss of the submarine Kursk, a movement has begun to reestablish EPRON to insure that Russia will never find itself so helpless again. In effect, the international nature of the Ohgushi story is mirrored in the different participants who provided the facts of this story. Bits of the tale came from sources scattered all over the world, including from members of our sister societies in Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. This is precisely the type of cooperative effort for which the HDS was originated to foster. Members wishing to add a copy of this heavily illustrated publication to their library may obtain a copy from the HDSUSA. Do not wait, as there are only a limited number of copies available.  Soft bound, 40 pages, black & white illustrations, Russian and English Language. Limited to 500 copies.
Price $10 plus $4.50 domestic p&p, Ca. res. add 7.75% sales tax. Overseas orders contact HDS office at hds@hds.org for p&p rates. All proceeds go to HDS Russia

SUBMARINE RESEARCHES
ON THE WRECKS OF HIS MAJESTY'S LATE SHIPS ROYAL GEORGE, BOYNE AND OTHERS
by C.A. Deane
This book was originally published in England in 1835. It is the first book about diving using the “open” diving helmet and dress, with air pumped down from the surface. This apparatus, with a little modification, soon became the familiar “hard-hat” or standard heavy gear diving equipment, that went into use around the world. It was invented by Charles Deane and his younger brother John, and was originally intended for breathing in smokefilled rooms. The Deane brothers successfully carried out naval and commercial salvage, and civil engineering projects under water. In this book Charles Deane illustrates, with extensive notes, some of his diving operations. By 1835 he had been so successful that he mounted a Submarine Exhibition in Regent Street, London, for which he obtained royal patronage. A series of huge oil paintings, a collection of artifacts recovered from wrecks, and the diving apparatus itself were placed on show. Submarine Researches was published principally to promote the Exhibition, but it also provides us now with a valuable record of the first years of the diving industry. The authoritative introduction tells the story of these pioneering years. Published by the Historical Diving Society in England. Hard bound, b&w illustrations.
Price $35.00 plus $9 domestic S&H; Overseas contact hds@hds.org CA residents add 7.75% sales tax

THE PEARL-SHELLERS OF TORRES STRAITS
by Regina Ganter
A well researched title charting the progress of the pearl-shelling industry and its divers from its heyday to the 1960’s. The Torres Strait was a maritime crossroads for many centuries and was home to an exotic international mix of divers working to recover pearl shell. The author is an academic at the University of Queensland and her manuscript won the inaugural Australian Historical Association prize in Australian History in 1992. Reviewed in HDM # 30. We have a very limited supply. Soft bound 299 pages, b&w photos, charts, appendix, glossary, extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index.
Price $23.00 plus $6 domestic S&H; Overseas contact hds@hds.org CA residents add 7.75% sales tax

CALL TO ADVENTURE
by Hillary Hauser
The Society has recently acquired several new copies of this book written and individually signed by one diving’s foremost female writers. Hauser was part of the Skin Diver magazine team during the latter part of the last century and has written several books on diving, as well as articles for over 25 different magazines. In this book she tells of the adventures in the careers of some of diving’s most influential international leaders and historic figures: Hannes Keller, Jack McKenney, Dick Anderson, Ed Link, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Joe MacInnis, Ron and Valerie Taylor, Carleton Ray, Sylvia Earle, Eugenie Clark, Rodney Fox, Glen Miller, Jean Michel Cousteau, Bob Ballard, John Lilly, Bob Marx, and Chris Newbert. Their adventures cover a wide range of experiences from the great white sharks of Blue Water White Death, to life under the Arctic ice and dredging for gold in California. The book is well illustrated with images from photographers like David Doubilet, Al Giddings, Jack McKenney, Carl Roessler, Ron Taylor, Bob Evans and others.
Soft bound 8 1/2” x 11”, 1987, 208 pages, with color and b&w photos, glossary, index, and signed by the author. HDS special price of $15 plus $9 domestic p&p. or overseas p&p contact HDS office at hds@hds.org CA residents add 7.75% sales tax

DIVING PIONEERS
An oral history of diving in America 
by Eric Hanauer
1994 1st Edition
Records the adventures of the pioneering divers who helped to establish scuba diving in America. REVIEWED IN HD #5. A valuable diving book for the historian and casual reader alike. 269 pages. B&W photos.
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THE CALIFORNIA ABALONE INDUSTRY
A Pictorial History 
by A. L. "Scrap" Lundy
1997 1st Edition
A full historical accounting of this diving industry covering the efforts of the Chinese, the original 19th century Japanese divers and the Caucasian divers of the 20th century. An abundance of rare photos and information. REVIEWED IN HD #10. 240 pages, 324 photos, charts, tables, bibliography, glossary, index.
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DEEP WATER MAN
by Dale Vinette
Deep Water Man, by Dale Vinette Written by retired U.S. Navy Master Diver Dale Vinette about his commercial and military diving career. Starting in 1934 with a home-made shallow water helmet from an article in Popular Mechanics Magazine, the author recalls several commercial diving jobs during the 1930s. His diving adventures cover the Great Lakes, Fort Peck Dam, Montana, repairing a gold-mining dredge in N.W. Territories, Canada, and the Yanqui River Dam in Sonora, Mexico. WWII experiences include Pier 88, work with British Special Forces underwater explosives unit, cutting the harbor nets at Oran, Algeria, Browne rebreathers, diving operations to save the crew of the submarine U.S.S. Pickerel, and more. Vinette's decorations include the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star for his military combat and rescue experiences. The names of numerous commercial and military divers are recorded as are details of the various locations and there are numerous photos of diving operations. Soft bound, 8 1/2 x 11, 127 pages, b&w photos, diagrams, maps, glossary of terms.
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HANS HASS and his journeys to BONAIRE
by Michael Jung
Written by Historical Diver's German Editor Michael Jung and featuring early Hass photographs from the 1939 expedition. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hans Hass's initial visit when he became the first person to dive, photograph and film the coral reefs of Bonaire. His return visit on Xarifa in 1953 is also covered. 1999 English language paper back, 56 pages, black and white photographs.
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THE WORLD OF ZARH PRITCHARD
by Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
with an introduction by Tom Burgess
Known as "The Merman," Zahr Pritchard was, quite literally, the first man to develop methods for applying oil paints to canvas while underwater. As a consequence, he became the first to descend in a deep sea diving helmet and dress to paint underseas vistas and marine life - an involvement that he adopted as his life's work. Beginning in the 1880's, Pritchard was experimenting in Scotland - sketching underwater scenery using breath-held descents facilitated with goggles. By 1906, in Tahiti, he had crafter his diving and painting techniques and he held his first exhibit in San Francisco in the very month of the great earthquake. Thereafter, for more than thirty years, The Merman sold his art to the wealthiest of society and to members of royalty in countries across the globe. Museums in America, Europe and the Orient include works of Pritchard in their holdings. This book is a well researched record of this foremost underwater painters career, with extensive notes, a bibliography and appendix of titles. Includes spectacular images of underwater scenery published in full color. A unique (and almost unknown outside of HDS-USA) title for the library of anyone interested in underwater imagery, the sea or fine art. 64 pages.
Softcover $25.00 plus $5 domestic S&H; Overseas contact hds@hds.org CA residents add 7.75% sales tax