Nation's Attic 2024 Diving Into History

Two US Navy Training Manuals Shallow Water Diving & Aqua-Lung

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Start price: $50

Estimated price: $100 - $200

Buyer's premium: 20%

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This is a pair of original United States Navy training manuals or books. The first is an original Bureau of Ships Navy Department Instruction Book for the Aqua Lung Demand Type Diving Apparatus dated September 1954. Housed in the original textured folder with gold lettering, this detailed manual is 16 pages with fantastic black & white images. The interior pages are clean. The second item is an original United States Navy introduction to Shallow Water Diving published in May 1945. 30 pages, softcover with numerous illustrations. Cover still attached but only at the center spine. Both of these publications are difficult to find in nice original condition!

 

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