The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a United Kingdom 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
Umbilicus
Umbilicus may refer to:*Umbilicus , a feature of gastropod, Nautilus and Ammonite shell anatomy*Navel, a synonym for the navel or belly button.... : 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
Binocular telescopes, or binoculars , are two identical or mirror-symmetry optical 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.
e was an oxygen rebreather called the "Universal" that was designed to be used with it.
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The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman
Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a United Kingdom 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
Umbilicus
Umbilicus may refer to:*Umbilicus , a feature of gastropod, Nautilus and Ammonite shell anatomy*Navel, a synonym for the navel or belly button.... : 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
Binocular telescopes, or binoculars , are two identical or mirror-symmetry optical 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 Apparatus
Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus
The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus , was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Robert Davis , head of Siebe Gorman, inspired by the earlier Fleuss system.... .
