Their basic functions were long ago usurped by computers, but then again, the dive watch was made to withstand harsh conditions.
When Kevin Casey was laying oil pipes on the seabed in the 1970s, the problem wasn’t the sharks or the stingrays, it was the eels. “Once, off the coast of Nigeria, I got to the end of a pipeline, which sat on a big half-shell guard,” he tells me one day at the Diving Museum in Gosport, Hampshire, where he now works as director. “I look in the half shell, and there’s this huge eel sitting in it. All I can really make out is its mouth.
The start of the golden age of diving — recreational, at least — is sometimes dated to a 1953 issue of National Geographic which featured a story about Cousteau’s underwater archaeology off Marseille. The story, it’s said, created huge demand for Aqua-Lungs and diving gear, and the other equipment that followed, notably underwater cameras.
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