Deep Sea Diving

Diving History In the latest issue of the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeological Society

Diving History In the latest issue of the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeological Society's newsletter, Wisconsin's Underwater Heritage, there is a very interesting article on Wisconsin diving history. On item of particular interest was a mention of a Helium dive being conducted on the wreck of the carferry Lakeland near Sturgeon Bay in 1925. Our belief was that the first operational use of Helium/Oxygen diving was on the USS Squalus in 1939. We have scanned the article and created a pdf file. Click here to view it.

These folks do some great underwater archaeology and historical preservation. You can visit the WUAA website at http://www.wuaa.org.