amazing how efficient this suit was for it's era. Still useful for today as long as its well kept...

These old dive suits both fascinate and unnerve me. When I was about 5 years old my family and I vacationed at the beach and while we were there my grandmother insisted we eat at this particular seafood restaurant as we walk in I see a dive suite display my grandmother my mom and my aunt wanted a picture of me with it and promise me we can ice cream if Im good and patient. as I nervously stand next to this thing my mom tells me “don’t be scared its only clothes stuffed with paper ” well at that moment my young imagination come to the conclusion that dive suits were some automata given life by satanic magic because whatever hinges held it in place began to creak loudly needless to say ran to my mom crying“I don’t want ice cream anymore!” It’s funny looking back but to this day seeing a dive suite gives me a brief feeling of paranoia

@rexnemo

Жыл бұрын

I imagine that Lovecraft could have woven a fine tale around your experience . As I stood in front of the antiquated equipment a figure seemed to ooze from the open face piece . Tentacles reached out and I was seized with an overwhelming sense of foreboding . At that precise moment I was overcome and swooned and this thankfully preserved me from a fate of unimaginable proportions . Later I was informed by a stalwart member of the local constabulary that had I not become insensible that the diabolical creature from an antediluvian era would most likely have made off with me and devoured me at its leisure . 😱

At 9:05 is when I announce "Damn, I got to take a dump"... Good video. Best

For those wondering the song is called Moonlight Sonata beethoven 3rd Movement

@legopachycephalosaurus6825

4 жыл бұрын

Dragomir Ronilac it is a symphony..... Edit: Or more so a Sonata

"Would you kindy" tell me can i get this suit? See, i made a bioshock reference.

@brianholtzman3462

5 жыл бұрын

Jack Ryan wants to know your location.

@auxometer

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianholtzman3462 Shhh! Spoilers!

@edenitebattleaxe

Жыл бұрын

AWAAAAAAA ANOTHER BIOSHOCK FAN HELLOOOOOOOOOO Gods this shit is so mmm to me because of bioshock iykyk

The Navy’divingdress’ is very buoyant when is filled with air. Lead belt and shoes can render neutral buoyancy unless most air is removed. Air for breathing by the ‘hard hat diver’ is in his helmet

35years ago I swore never to dive again or even go in the water other than a hot tub loaded with fine wahinis. So here I am diving again in order to maintain my vessels and repair them at 60 yrs old!

@schmedlywhiplash6267

6 жыл бұрын

Besh Kodiak Why did you say 35 years ago that you would never dive again? Hope it wasn't for a tragic life changing exp. Glad to hear your back at it!

@dominictappella-nicholson9125

5 жыл бұрын

Besh Kodiak You are an idol.

This was so interesting. The book Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan led me here. Looks really hard to get used to but I bet it's worth it when you get underwater.

Thanks for the clip. It's a great introduction to historic diving. It's certainly easier divers today!

By looking at this outfit and the dressing of the diver is more complicated than the Siebe gorman suit ( I dove many years in that suit ) In the royal dutch navy and salvages company"s It was much easier to dress and work with (1960 to 1970) To a depth of 50 meters (deeper than that with helium mixture).

Exactly the way the Navy has always done it! Outstanding!

@richardhoepfner1633

4 жыл бұрын

They are Army.

Hope he doesn't take spongebob and Patrick

@williamfairchild7439

4 жыл бұрын

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004

@Fart-uf7xh

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

Its crazy how little the concept has changed from even the 50s to now.

A real big daddy

@captainslate8844

2 жыл бұрын

Right on

@edenitebattleaxe

Жыл бұрын

LESSGO ANOTHER BIOSHOCK FAN YEAHHHHH

Brings back fond memories of my early days diving salvage with my father. You missed out quite a few 'tricks' but I guess the video can only be so long. We wore thick woollens under the suit to help maintain body temperature as the water would leech all our warmth. The air supply pumps were still manual hand pumps, 1 pump per diver, 4 men per pump. To call us up for lunch the hot aromatic food was held near the air intake, the food smell would have us at the surface in no time. Similarly, the men turning the pump handles were rotated regularly as their sweaty B.O. would also be pumped down to us. I hope you were briefed never to bend over as your suit was not laced to your body, but you were not deep enough for it to be life-threatening. Your air exhaust is at the top so if you bend over your exhaust moves to the bottom and your suit inflates and you surface fast, feet first. Lethal if you are at depth. Always check your suit for residents before you get dressed, nothing worse than having a cockroach or mouse appear in your helmet when you are under. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

8:13 why hello there! xD

12 steps to the line cookie

Incredible. My father trained in these when he went to commercial diving in Camden NJ back in the late 70's. I dont think it's what he used on his deep dives for the oil rigs though.

@downlink5877

7 жыл бұрын

At the start of oilfield diving in the 1960s, the divers did use heavy gear / standard dress such as this, but that only lasted for a few years before the lightweight helmets began appearing on the scene.

@ndelliott138

7 жыл бұрын

Im not an expert, I took an advanced open water diving course where we had fairly extensive decompression times, but nothing mixed gas or requiring a decompression chamber. Half an hour at 120 ft., I don't have my residual nitrogen chart but it was a pretty intense ascent for a guy like me. My initial checkout dive (PDIC) was in a quarry with water temps at 29 F in a old wet suit. I remember I couldn't press the button on my BC so I had to bang it on my shoulder to ascend. Anyway, I believe my father used a dry suit with a Mark V helmet. He did a lot of saturation dives as an underwater welder.

@downlink5877

7 жыл бұрын

www.divedesco.com

He didn’t technically check the comms thou but still pretty lit 🔥 😆

Tried and true technology!

Is there a way to attach a couple of oxygen tanks to the back somehow? Maybe a model to the breast plate's back? It would be better for lone divers going to small rivers and can go farther than with a hose

6:28 Is the jocking strap uncomfortable?

Can i try it there to

How much does that rig weigh?

When I am 37 can I do this because I really want to and when I am a teen can I do it?

Pretty good instructions from guys who were not even born before we stopped using the MK-5 in the Army!

4:30 *_this nut known as the bastard nut_*

Decompression chamber on stand by, and used many times for safety.

Wow !

This is classic 😂

IT'S THE CYCLOPS!!!

I do like the Deep Sea Diving Suit for Deep Sea Divers

Yikes! All that gear must weigh a ton! U guys r badass

@seikibrian8641

7 жыл бұрын

On the surface, it's very heavy...especially the hat and weight belt. But underwater the air in the suit makes it light, and by adjusting the amount of air the diver can make it negatively, positively, or neutrally buoyant.

@bosslady759

7 жыл бұрын

Brave men, fer sure, Ill stick to snorkeling :)

@Walkslowlylooking

7 жыл бұрын

As I remember, the air hat rig was 196 lb. and the HeO2 hat rig was 296 lb. We had to be in decent shape, so the air hat didn't feel bad. The HeO2 rig, with its 35-lb. boots, required concentration.

@martinvargas1103

5 жыл бұрын

40 pound boots, 84 pound belt and 54 pound hat

Hooyah deep sea powell!

Whoa

They still use this old fashioned suit?

@drippinproductions1472

4 жыл бұрын

Probably not

Why are you guys using Nyaw from Friday Night Funkin kapi mod?

are these still used at all?

@martinsweeney1049

8 жыл бұрын

to clean boats and repair bridges yes, because they supply unlimited air, also used formunderwater builds

@zachpowell1561

7 жыл бұрын

For traditional purposes, yes, but not for much else. There are a lot of modern options available through companies like Kirby Morgan (the KM-37 is used heavily in the US Army) and normal SCUBA.

They visibility out of that helmet must be horrible!

What's with the officers? I thought the Mark V was a civilian use and collected for display?

@zachpowell1561

4 жыл бұрын

J. Owens everyone here is enlisted but no it’s still a divable suite. There’s another video on my channel posted shorty after this one where we dive it alongside the KM37

Why are soldier doing this?

All of the Bioshock fans are creaming themselves right now. (I didn't disclose myself)

The old diving helmet makes me uncomfortable.

Shouldn't wear shorts in that rig, Chaffing nightmare. I stopped it there

......so no peeing in the suit ?????

Da würde ich gerne mal rein schlüpfen

the diving jocks looks horrible.

This suit looks so creepy.