Sladen Suit
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The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman
. It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus
: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives. It was used by British manned torpedo riders and for general underwater work.
It was sometimes nicknamed "Clammy Death".
Its first make had two small eyeholes. It was redesigned with the big oval flip-up so the wearer could get binoculars
to his eyes.
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Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a British company which developed diving equipment and breathing equipment and worked on commercial diving and marine salvage projects...
. It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus
Navel
The navel is a scar on the abdomen caused when the umbilical cord is removed from a newborn baby...
: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives. It was used by British manned torpedo riders and for general underwater work.
It was sometimes nicknamed "Clammy Death".
Its first make had two small eyeholes. It was redesigned with the big oval flip-up so the wearer could get binoculars
Binoculars
Binoculars, field glasses or binocular telescopes are a pair of identical or mirror-symmetrical telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes when viewing distant objects...
to his eyes.
"Universal" rebreather
There was an oxygen rebreather called the "Universal" that was designed to be used with it. The Universal was a long-dive derivative of the Davis Submerged Escape ApparatusDavis Submerged Escape Apparatus
The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus , was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system...
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