Diving History

A Selected Reading List

General history of diving:

James Dugan: Man Explores the Sea (Hamish Hamilton, 1956)

Reg Vallintine: Divers and Diving (Blandford, 1981)
ISBN: 0 71370855 7

Pierre de Latil & Jean Rivoire: Man and the Underwater World (Jarrolds, 1956)

Early designs and the history of helmet diving:

Sir Robert Davis: Deep Diving and Submarine Operations. (Seventh edition, 1962.)

John Bevan: The Infernal Diver (Submex Ltd, 21 Roland Way, London, SW7 3RF)
ISBN: 0 9508242 16

Leon Lyons: Helmets of the Deep (1998, Lyons, 9c King St, St Augustine, FL 32084-4451) ISBN 962-7256-01-3

Other popular and general surveys of diving history include:

Egan Larsen: Men Under the Sea (Phoenix House, 1955)

Gilbert Doukan: The World Beneath the Waves (Allen & Unwin, 1957)

Robert Marx: They Dared the Deep (PeIham Books, 1967)

Robert Marx: Into the Deep (Van Nostrand, 1978)

Art Bachrach (Editor): A Pictorial History of Diving (Best Publishing, California, 1988)

History of Underwater Vehicles:

James Sweeney: A Pictorial History of Oceanographic Submersibles (Hale, 1972)
ISBN: 0 7091 28649

Alex Roland: Underwater Warfare In the Age of Sail (Indiana Press, 1978)
ISBN: 0253 318246

Robert Burgess: Ships Beneath the Sea (Hale, 1975) ISBN: 0 7091 5670 7

Janes Ocean Technology (Jane's Publishing Company) Published annually from 1974.