Diving – Nemo Would Have Been Proud
Is it a spaceman? A creature from Mars? Some form of mechanical man? Nope, it’s an early atmospheric diving suit from 1924 by Pop Peress, designed to protect the user from the pressures of deep diving.
Beaty, previously of the Sketchup Steampunk Moon Base, had been searching for appropriate protective wear for the inhabitents, and found the following page of historical images from the early days of mechanical diving - Diving History Cards. Scroll down to cards 21 to 24 to see the amazing early designs for diving suits; some of which were perfectly impractical! When truth (such as the Peress diving suit above) is so very strange, it only serves to make our Steampunk fiction all the more plausible!