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Madison Diving Club Members

Date: 11 08 1956
Description: Madison Diving Club members Harold Stitgen, president, Reverend Herbert Schaak, treasurer, and James Filer dressed for scuba diving in Lake Mendota off Con...
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Madison Diving Club Members

Date: 11 08 1956
Description: Madison Diving Club members Harold Stitgen, president, Reverend Herbert Schaak, treasurer, and James Filer wearing diving suits and scuba gear, ready for a...
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Man in Diving Suit

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: A man wearing a diving suit stands on a ladder coming out of a body of water (possibly the Chicago River). A sign in the background reads, "Dredge". The ma...
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Diver at Work at Power Dam

Date: 11 05 1911
Description: A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding.
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Diver at Work at Power Dam

Date: 04 12 1912
Description: A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage.
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Diver and Crew

Date: 1937
Description: Three men on pilings posing with man in a diving suit in preparation for a dive. Onlookers are standing above on a bridge in the background.
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Man in Diving Suit

Date: 1937
Description: Man in diving suit being helped out of the water by three men in a rowboat.
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Divers Testing New Breathing Mixture in a Revolutionary Dive Suit

Date: 1937
Description: John Craig, Max Gene Nohl (seated in the dive suit), Dr. Edgar End and a fourth unknown person looking in. The location is the Milwaukee County Emergency H...
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Lowering Diver Max Nohl into Lake Michigan in Preparation for a Record Deep Dive

Date: 04 10 1937
Description: On April 10th, 1937, Max Nohl (shown in the dive suit) along with John Craig made a dive on the shipwreck Norland in order to perform another early ...
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Divers Testing New Breathing Mixture

Date: 1936
Description: Dr. Edgar End, Max Gene Nohl and John Craig (the "human guinea pigs") are shown inside the decompression chamber located at the Milwaukee County Emergency ...
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Scuba Diving Class Students Demonstrate "Buddy Breathing"

Date: 07 13 1961
Description: Scuba diving class student Stephanie Morgan of 3534 Topping Road, Madison; and instructor, Paul Geisler, 4206 Council Crest, Madison, demonstrate the "budd...
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Collision Damage on the Schooner Home

Date: 06 22 2015
Description: Underwater view of the starboard side of the bow of the schooner Home, the site of the collision damage that sank the ship. The sampson post and win...
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Measuring the Remains of the Schooner Home

Date: 09 09 2008
Description: Underwater view of a scuba diver (an underwater archaeologist) shining a light on two liquor or water jugs that had been pulled out during the archaeologic...
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Exploring the Schooner Home

Date: 02 03 2011
Description: Underwater overhead view of the schooner Home taken from the starboard side near the stern. Two underwater archeologists are swimming over the site ...
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Studying the Collision Damage of the Schooner Home

Date: 02 03 2011
Description: Underwater overhead view of the collision damage and the deck of the schooner Home. Two underwater archeologists are surveying the site.
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Surveying the Lakeland

Date: 08 05 2013
Description: Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar...
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The Ruins of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 06 22 2015
Description: Underwater starboard view of the Lakeland. While the ship remains largely intact, it is split in half, with the back end of the ship in the backgrou...
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The Wreck of the Louisiana

Date: 06 10 2005
Description: Underwater view of algae and mussels living on the engine mount of the sunken Louisiana. To the left, an underwater archeologist is surveying the si...
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Underwater Archeologist at the Site of the Louisiana

Date: 06 10 2005
Description: Underwater view of an underwater archeologist investigating the drift pins of the Louisiana. Algae and mussels are covering most of the wood of the ...
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Surveying the Bow of the Milwaukee

Date: 08 03 2014
Description: Underwater view of an archeologist examining the bow of the Milwaukee.

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