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Updated: October 5, 2025
And there she lay just as she had gone down, so that you could see the top of the masts that was still standing perfectly distinctly. The row ended in all coming in the boat. I went down in the diving-dress on Friday morning directly it was light. "What a surprise it was! I can see it all now quite distinctly. It was a queer-looking place, and the light was just coming.
His heart, for an instant, ceased to beat. He thought he was going to lose consciousness. By a supreme effort he recovered himself. He stepped toward the corpse. Suddenly a shock as violent as unexpected made his whole frame vibrate! A long whip seemed to twine round his body, and in spite of the thick diving-dress he felt himself lashed again and again. "A gymnotus!" he said.
It all seemed so neat and clean and straightforward, and what rough chaps call a 'cert. And we used to speculate how the other blessed lot, the proper salvagers, who'd started two days before us, were getting on, until our sides fairly ached. We all messed together in the Sanderses' cabin it was a curious crew, all officers and no men and there stood the diving-dress waiting its turn.
So rapidly does this pressure increase, that divers attired in an ordinary diving-dress are only able to descend to a depth of about fifteen fathoms, or ninety feet; there are a few cases where this depth has been exceeded, but they are few and far between.
In an edition of Vegetius on the Art of War, published in 1511, there is an engraving of a diver walking in the sea with a cap over his head and shoulders, from which a flexible tube rises to the surface. This was, no doubt, the embryo of our "diving-dress."
Benito then pulled the communication cord, and the men on the raft commenced to haul him in, but they worked slowly, taking a minute to draw him up two or three feet so as not to produce in his internal organs the dreadful effects of decompression. As soon as the young man had set foot on the raft the metallic sphere of the diving-dress was raised, and he took a long breath and sat down to rest.
"David, boy, did ye find anny treasure?" "No; see'd nothin'." "Ow, ow, worse luck!" sighed Rooney. Maxwell was made comfortable with a glass of weak brandy and water hot and his comrades returned on deck, where they found Edgar Berrington commencing to put on the diving-dress. "Goin' down, sir?" inquired Joe. "Yes.
"Why, professor, what, in the name of all that is comical, is the meaning of this? Are we to walk forth among the fishes equipped like the knights of old?" asked the baronet, pointing to the armour. "I will explain," said the professor. "In an ordinary diving-dress a man can only descend to a depth of something like fifteen fathoms.
This man was a very large fellow, with a dark surly countenance not exactly bad in expression, but rather ill-tempered-looking. His diving-dress being necessarily very wide and baggy, made him seem larger than he really was indeed, quite gigantic.
But do I?" said Attwater. "One thing I know at least: I never gave a cry like yours. Hay! it came from a bad conscience! Ah, man, that poor diving-dress of self-conceit is sadly tattered! To-day, if ye will hear my voice. To-day, now, while the sun sets, and here in this burying-place of brown innocents, fall on your knees and cast your sins and sorrows on the Redeemer. Hay "
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