Description
20,000 Jobs Under the Sea, A history of diving and underwater engineering
Torrance R Parker
Hardback with dust jacket in as new condition.
Contents:
Evolution of diving equipment and compressed air diving
Early commercial diving
Los Angeles Harbor’s first divers
The hand pump era
America’s largest diving and salvage contractor
The black horse divers of southern California
Early Pacific coast diving operations
The first offshore oil divers
Depression era diving
Divers and tenders Labor Union developments
Projects of the Thirties
World War II
America’s glory years of open sea sponge diving
Post war diving developments
The first diving schools
Breaking in
The abalone fishery
Diving for oil
Large diameter pipeline projects
Bends
Diving in habors and other places
Shipwork and salvage
Moving into the 21st century
354 pages
B&W photographs
226 mm x 288 mm (approx. 9 in x 11.25 in)
1997, Sub Sea Archives, Palos Verdes Peninsula