Sunday, July 22, 2012

This Just Doesn't Look Safe


The axe is a nice touch.

An early diving suit (and perhaps the earliest apparatus worn on the person and submerged) the creative and comparatively lightweight effort of Karl Heinrich Klingert, who produced it at the very end of the 18th century, in 1797 or thereabouts.

2 comments:

M. D. Jackson said...

I assume the axe is for fighting off cephalopods?

Kal said...

Or for cutting coral out of your bare feet.