Tuesday, February 4, 2014

History of Diving Museum and some bridges

Drove back from Key West to Ft. Lauderdale.  Driving the bridges was cool and seeing the old railroad/car bridges was interesting.



 Looks like they added the road part of the bridge right above the railroad part.  Different.





 Visited the History of Diving Museum.  They have a pretty good collection of diving gear.
 One of the first piece of diving equipment made.
 A lot of this old equipment is all hand made and one off.
 Supposed to pump air to you and your light by moving your head back and forth to move the bellows.  Never used.









 Underwater chainsaw!

 Helmet collection



Temporary "light house" light.  Strung up from the mast of a ship
Helium dive helmet



re-breathers.
Hard/armored suits for deep diving.
Decompression chamber.  Doesn't look like any fun!

Iron Duke. Replaced the Iron Mike suit.
Iron Mike suit.  First known hard suit.
Underwater gas powered light.  Used forced air to keep burning.



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