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History of Scuba Diving Gear

Wednesday July 2, 2008
In 1772, Frenchmen, Sieur Freminet invented a 'rebreathing' device that recycled the exhaled air from inside of the barrel, this was the first self-contained air device. Freminet's invention was a poor one, the inventor died from lack of oxygen after being in his own device for twenty minutes.

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May 31, 2006 at 3:43 pm
(1) calli says:

i know that its hard for a website to be alert and know everything but truly you have loads of inventors but nothing about them , i mean check out the history of scuba diving , there is just one paragraph

April 3, 2007 at 10:17 am
(2) Cara Fletcher says:

Calli you are right that the scuba diving has a lot of history but this is one of the biggest and most important inventions.

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