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Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Culmor - 21 Mar 2010

Can you imagine the law suits if a magazine suggested making a diving helmet out of a biscuit tin today? 'Modern Mechanics and Inventions' advice was 'you are in no particular danger' if you don't go deeper than about ten meters 'for most of your dives'😒Riiiiight...it all sounds like an unnecessarily complicated method of drowning yourself to me...

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'Be sure to pick helpers at the pump who don't think it "funny" to quit while you are down below'. Excellent advice, that.


RE: Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Like Ra - 21 Mar 2010

When was it published? The year I mean?

On page 142 there is a shot repeater ad. My first thought: a link to a "How to make a gun" DIY manual.


RE: Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Culmor - 21 Mar 2010

I'm not sure but the early nineteen-thirties I think. The whole thing looks like an accident waiting to happen.


RE: Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Like Ra - 21 Mar 2010

Oh yeah, no doubts. Just add lead shoes ...


RE: Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Culmor - 21 Mar 2010

Without lead boots or a weight-belt I have no idea how the guy on the first page is walking around on the seabed, he should be bobbing about on the surface like a cork. The apparent lack of understanding of elementary physics doesn't fill me with much confidence in the project.


RE: Do-It-Yourself diving helmet. - Like Ra - 21 Mar 2010

Apparently they were going to added a funny twist to the old good cement shoes method