Cave Diving Historical Items
It was Michael Poucher's and Kelly Jessop's idea to create an online cave diving site to record pictures of old cave diving related gear and...
As always Mike, some pretty amazing pieces. Thank you !!
This was one of the early attempts at directional makers for caves. The arrows were put on before the dive with pre-measured distances on them. 550...
No idea who owned this but there may be some old cave diving photos around!
Circa 1972. This allowed you to calculate how much time you had underwater for a given depth, tank pressure and surface air consumption (SAC) rate.
This is a West Point Crappie fishing reel made into a jump reel for cave diving. Owner/maker unknown. This was pretty much the only option before...
Aluminum backplate for doubles with rigging. Note the shoulder quick release. Don't know who owned this, or if this was a home made or commercial...
A homemade reel but don't know the owner or maker or time for it.
Apparently this belonged to Whitmore, but I don't know any more than that. Any information on the owner and any history on the Nemrod BC is welcome.
This Eric Hutcheson in a no-mount tunnel in Silver Springs in 1992. Eric explored and mapped the spring cave with Ken Peakman and permission from...
Sorry, this is a really bad picture but the glare from the glass over the picture really confused my camera. Anyway, the picture is under the B-15...
Pretty much, the title says it all. Any other information or stories welcome!
Dr. Bill Stone takes the maiden voyage testing his new digital wall mapper at Wakulla Springs in 1997 while securing a permit for the US Deep Cave...
Sheck Exley posing on a dock in Belize. If anyone knows the others in the photo, andwhen would be greatly appreciated, as well as any other...
Photo of Sheck Exley plotting survey data. If anyone knows the other people in the photo, places, or date would be helpful!
US Deep Cave Diving Team 1995 Rio Tuerto expedition to the Huatla Resurgence in Mexico. From L to R: Brian Rennix, Paul Heinerth, Jill Heinerth, Kim...
For all those cave divers that never met this guy, his name is Forrest Michael Wilson. He gets the honor of inventing the Cave Arrow. I took this...
Dave Desautels told me that almost every open water diver he recovered out of a cave in the 70's had a copy of this book in their car. I bought this...
This is what is left of my first reel. The original Bob Johnson had a Martz reel, not sure if it was a copy or original Martz. I took it home over a...
This is an original dual valve manifold. Jim Ley, among others, made these. This one has parts scavenged off it over the years. Its a couple of US...
So this was an attempt to make a reel that couldn't jam. Well, it has issues, but basically works. [/URL] Click on image for a larger version ...
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