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All, A couple years ago Chuck Tribolet was kind enough to scan some old slides onto CD for me. The slides came from the widow of one of the NEDU divers pictured in the slides, Bruce Templin. Dave Shenton has spared space on his server to place the images: http://www.aviation-procurement.com/rebreather/index.html The pictures of the large, white rebreather are of the GE Mark 10 Unit. These are the only known pictures of the unit, outside classified circles. This particular rebreather was used by Ron Ault to make his record-breaking 1972 excursion in the DDS MK-2 MOD 0 to set the in-water record of 1,010 fsw. http://www.navydiver.org/history/default.html For many years these rebreathers were classified, as were the missions they were designed to support. http://www.specialoperations.com/Operations/ivybells.html http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_f_ivybells http://www.unclesam.net/cny/ntins/bbs-049.htm This link has a photograph of the boat and of the tap (big page, slow to load): http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/ic2000/ic2000.htm Also outlined in great detail in the following books: Blind Man�s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage By Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew Public Affairs, 1998 349 pages; $25.00 The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea By John Pi�a Craven Simon & Schuster, 2001 304 pages; $26.00 The other photo's are of a base somewhere in England showing the US Navy Divers training British Divers to use the MK10, and some shots showing other rebreathers. My personal favorite is the picture of the diver suited up with full telemetry, about to be lowered into the wetpot at NEDU. And when I say full telemetry, I mean it. They had valves installed into their arms in order to allow blood gas tests to be run by medical technicians outside the chamber, and there were a few internal sensors as well (only two ways in). Dave Shenton was kind enough to spare a spot on his server to put the images up for all who would like to see/download them. Some of these images are 15 mb and larger .tiff files, so use caution. He also used some of his connects in Britain to get us this bit of information: "The Brit sets were made by Gorman and are W.W.II vintage. There are/were two types designated CDBA and SCBA for Clearance Diver Breathing Apparatus and Swimmer Canoeist Breathing Apparatus. CD were/are Royal Navy and obviously the SC were/are SBS. The SCBA gave 90 minutes with no reserve." Special Thanks to the guys at NEDU, Mrs. Templin, Ron Ault, Chuck Tribolet and Dave Shenton. Scott http://www.hctc.com/~kopfab/ -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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