DIVERS AT WORK THROUGH THE ICE, DULUTH, MINN.
Dated 1910
Helmet is a turn of the century A. Schrader commercial, made sometime before 1905.
Roy Butler preforming the feat of walking underwater for the greatest distance (14 miles) and staying submerged for the longest period of time; than anyone previous to this – across Hampton Roads from Old Point Comfort to Ocean View Amusement Park, Norfolk, Va., Aug 5, 1950 – Breaking Two World’s Records.
Roy Butler was a diver in the US Navy during WWII and after the war ran a salvage company.
Helmet is a Morse commercial, made sometime in the 1930s.
Several times daily a Marine Studio staff diver goes down to feed many of the larger specimens by hand. Marine Studios is located 18 miles south of St. Augustine on the new Ocean Shore Boulevard (Florida #140)
Helmet is a SNEAD style 2 shallow water hat, which 1st appeared in the 1934 Willis catalog.
This painting of ” TREASURE DIVER” by George Wilhelms, hangs in MCKEE’S MUSEUM OF SUNKEN TREASURE at TREASURE HARBOR, PLANTATION KEY, FLORIDA. It depicts ARTHUR MCKEE, a DEEP SEA DIVER, at work on his discovery of the wreck of an ancient SPANISH GALLEON which sank off PLANTATION KEY in 1733.
Helmet is the US Navy MK V, which was the official helmet of the Navy from 1916-1984. Four companies produced this helmet during the war (Morse, Schrader, DESCO, Miller-Dunn).