Information about Timeline of underwater technology
Timeline of underwater technology * 1716 - Edmund Halley builds a diving bell * 1772 - Sieur Freminet builds the first scuba device, but dies from lack of oxygen after 20 minutes * 1801 - Robert Fulton builds the first submarine * 1819 - Augustus Siebe invents a diving suit which receives air pumped down from the surface * 1934 - Charles Beebe dives to 3,028 feet using a bathysphere * 1943 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes the first scuba dive with a compressed-air aqualung * 1948 - Auguste Piccard sends the first bathyscape, FNRS-2, on unmanned dives * 1954 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched * 1954 - first manned dives in FNRS-2 * 1956 - first wetsuit was introduced * 1958 - USS Nautilus completes the first ever voyage under the polar ice to the North Pole and back * 1960 - Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, descend to the deepest known point in the ocean in the bathyscape Trieste * 1960 - USS Nautilus completes the first ever underwater circumnavigation * 1983 - Orca Edge dive computer was introduced. * 1985 - The wreck of the Titanic was found.
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