A scuba diver photographing an amphora field, 1953

1953

A scuba diver photographing an amphora field, 1953

A diver in autonomous apparatus photographing amphorae at the Titan wreck in spring 1953. This is what the Aqua-Lung made possible: archaeology conducted by a swimming diver rather than a man in a helmet on an air line.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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