Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER LIV.--Diving--The first diving-bell--Fixed apparatus supplied

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with compressed air--The submarine hydrostat--Operations at Hell Gate--Diving apparatus--Submarine explosions--Improved diving dresses--Their use--Work of various kinds done with them--Instances of this--Seeking the treasure of the Hussar--Sunken ships in Sebastopol--Operations in Mobile--The Dry Dock at Pensacola Bay--The beauties of the submarine world--Habits of the fish--Possible depth of descent 594