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    The first scuba diving gear was created in the early 1800s by French Navy Lieutenant Denis Papin. He designed a closed-circuit breathing apparatus that allowed a diver to stay underwater for several hours. The first open-circuit scuba diving gear was created in the 1930s by Swiss engineer, Auguste Piccard.
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    History of scuba diving - Wikipedia

    The Frenchman Paul Lemaire d'Augerville built and used autonomous diving equipment in 1824, [38] as did the British William H. James in 1825. James' helmet was made of "thin copper or sole of leather" with a plate window, and the air was supplied from an iron reservoir. [39] See more

    The history of scuba diving is closely linked with the history of the equipment. By the turn of the twentieth century, two basic architectures for underwater breathing apparatus had been pioneered; open-circuit surface … See more

    Air Liquide started selling the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator commercially in 1946 under the name of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan or CG45 … See more

    The non-profit Divers Alert Network (DAN) was founded at Duke University in 1980 to promote safe diving. and has expanded into a global group of not-for-profit organisations providing safety and insurance services to members and maintaining … See more

    A scuba set is characterized by full independence from the surface during use, by providing breathing gas carried by the diver. Early attempts to reach this autonomy were … See more

    These early inventions were mostly based on a constant-flow supply of the air, and could produce the high pressures needed to supply compressed air to the diver. The compression and storage technology was not advanced enough to allow compressed air to … See more

    Scuba training of professional and recreational divers has been separate from the earliest days, but has developed in parallel as the equipment and many of the procedures are common regardless of application. The main factor separating the two applications is … See more

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    The first modern military scuba divers were the World War II Italian commando frogmen, of Decima Flottiglia MAS (now "ComSubIn": See more

     
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