Audio slideshow: Gosport museum tells history of diving

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<strong>Memorabilia from around the world has been brought together by the Historical Diving Society for the organisation's first museum in the UK dedicated to diving.</strong>

From Victorian diving helmets, to recreational scuba gear and the latest equipment used for complex off-shore industrial tasks, the museum tells the story of how man has explored the underwater environment.

Dr John Bevan describes some of the exhibits in the museum.

<strong><em>The Gosport Diving Museum is open to the public on weekends and bank holidays at No 2 Battery, Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire.</em></strong>

<em>Images subject to copyright - click 'show captions' for details. Music courtesy KPM Music, Extreme Music </em>

<em>Slideshow production by Stephen Stafford. Publication date 19 July 2011.</em>

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<a href="http://www.thehds.com/" >Historical Diving Society</a>

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