Dive Club Meeting - Dr Lynn Harris Professor Maritime Studies - “A Female Submarine Diver(1895)”

Schedule

Wed Dec 04 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Rum Runner Dive Shop | Winterville, NC

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“A Female Submarine Diver (1895)”: Exploring the Contributions of Women to the history of Deep-Sea Diving in North America and England from Ephemeral Accounts

Newspapers at the turn of the nineteenth century sporadically note the presence of women in commercial diving operations. Some worked in family businesses, invented their own better fitting ‘diving armor and helmets’, and took over hazardous work in harbors as divers when tragedy struck their husbands. Others, like Millie Mariner, were described in a 1914 newspaper as the only independent fully qualified and trained female submarine diver in England. Newspaper snippets note that twenty-five American female divers served in World War I. Another report notes that a woman, Margaret Naylor, led dive operations to search and raise a Spanish shipwreck at the Scottish Hebrides in 1924. By the latter part of the 1920s and 30s narratives of women’s exploits in the underwater environment became more prevalent with icons like Amelia Behrens-Furniss, Penelope “Mossie” Powell, and Lottie Hass. After the invention of SCUBA in the 1950s, women explored careers as scientific biological divers, dive instructors, wetsuit designers, and underwater filmmakers. Others indulged in heroic endeavors like trying to swim the entire English Channel underwater or competing in underwater spearfishing, starfish grappling, and octopus wrestling events. This talk highlights historical evidence that reveals the prevalence of women’s little-known earlier and various contributions to diving history.
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