Dive Museum

Five Hobos in The History of Diving Museum If you’ve been to the History of Diving Museum before, on your next visit be sure to keep a sharp eye out for something new in the exhibit galleries: hobos! No, not that kind of hobo. We still have enough mannequins to display all our diving suits

William Miller and William Dunn’s Divinhood Our team has been hard at work on transforming one of our most popular exhibits, The South Florida Room, so I wanted to give an update on the amazing progress that has been made in the past few months. Some of my favorite helmets in our collection can be

Vintage Photo of The “Diving Bell” Welcome to Dive into History: The History of Diving Museum Collections Blog! This is our newest medium to share diving history. This section is devoted to displaying, describing and offering history about the History of Diving Museum’s collection. Check in with us weekly, as we will offer a new

Diving into History at Disney The stated mission of the History of Diving Museum is to “tell the story of man’s quest to explore under the sea.” Members of the museum’s Board of Directors recently got an opportunity to bring that mission to life. A group of professional and commercial divers from around the country

The Writing on the Wall On February 29, 2012 the ribbon was cut for the Bauer Diving Research Library. The personal collection of Museum founders Drs. Joe and Sally Bauer includes some of the earliest published accounts of the story of undersea exploration and is decorated with unique wall hangings. Visitors to the museum are

Vintage Diving Photos – Diving in Style This week I’m taking the opportunity to air out some of the museum’s dirty laundry…literally. As I poked around the collections in search of missing items, I stumbled across two fantastic denim diving outfits that originally belonged to Wesley and Constance Mueller. The Muellers were pioneers in the

Getting A Handle on Things Well, it’s my second week here at the History of Diving Museum and I feel like I’m finally starting to get the hang of things. Erin and I have been photographing, cataloging and labeling objects in the museum’s collections and I’ve learned more about diving in the last week than

Under Pressure: Decompression Chambers I have to admit, decompression sickness and hyperbaric medicine are two things I know very little about. They are both complex subjects, so I’m very thankful – and grateful – for the doctors who are able to utilize pressurized chambers and oxygen, a gas that we all breathe every single day,

Commercial Diving The History of Diving Museum is home to thousands of artifacts that represent the rich and long history of the sport of diving. I am the new intern Jonathon and I will be at the museum through October. During my first week at the museum, the Commercial Diving exhibit caught my eye and