1978 – WASP Atmospheric Diving Suit – Graham Hawkes (British)

WASP – A mid-water unit using thrusters and a tubular lower body section rather than articulated legs. Wasp, built by OSEL, Offshore Submersibles Ltd., U.K. The Wasp may be regarded as the next development step in that it maneuvers by the use of four hull-mounted thrusters. Essentially it is a one-atmosphere, armoured diving suit without …

1906 – Apparatus for Submarine Recovering Operations Patent – Becchi and Tarantini (Italian)

1906 – Apparatus for Submarine Recovering Operations Patent by Becchi and Tarantini. Publication number US872888 A Publication type Grant Publication date Dec 3, 1907 Filing date Nov 15, 1906 Inventors Angelo Becchi, Giovanni Battista Tarantini Original Assignee Angelo Becchi, Giovanni Battista Tarantini APPARATUS FOR SUBMARINE RECOVERING OPERATIONS. This invention has for its object to provide …

1898 – Diving Apparatus Patent – James E Holland (American)

1898 – Diving Apparatus Patent by James E Holland. Publication number US638335 A Publication type Grant Publication date Dec 5, 1899 Filing date Dec 20, 1898 Priority date Dec 20, 1898   Inventors James E Holland Original Assignee Anton Lutz, James E Holland My invention relates to diving apparatus, and has special reference to such …

1964 – Marine Mammals and Ordnance Recovery (American)

1964 onwards – Marine Mammals and Ordnance Recovery Ahab, a 5,500 pound killer whale, recovers a piece of inert ordnance using an acoustic pinger to guide him during the Deep Ops project. The whale is also equipped with a grabber device and a hydrazine system to allow the object to float easily to the surface. …

1968 – Scripps Benthic Lab Tensor Arm – Victor C. Anderson (American)

FIGURE 95.—The Scripps tensor arm. Stress on the nylon filaments actuates the arm. (Courtesy of V. C. Anderson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) The "tensor arm," conceived by Victor Anderson, at the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, has 16 degrees of freedom (fig. 95). The entire arm is hydraulically actuated by …