The Deepwater Diving Monument depicts a diver wearing the revolutionary Kirby Morgan Superlite 17 Diving Helmet. The monument is meant to honor Santa Barbara's history as the birthplace of deepwater ...

Don Barthelmess, a retired deep-sea diver and longtime Santa Barbara City College diving instructor, is leading an effort to install a bronze statue at the Santa Barbara Harbor to commemorate the ...

By Captain Bobbie Scolley, U.S. Navy (ret.) and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, U.S. Navy (ret.) For more than six decades, spanning from 1905 to the late 1970s, the U.S. Navy’s diving apparatus for deep ...

A recent underwater archaeological recovery revealed the rich cultural heritage of Sicily, as an ancient helmet surfaced. The waters of the Aegadian Islands were searched by deep-sea divers from the ...