The World-Wide Impact of the South Florida Divinhood Florida Keys historians have emphasized treasure salvage, but overlooked that this started with an invention called the South Florida Divinhood. Biologists alike have forgotten that modern marine biology orginated with the same apparatus, and at the same time, diving historians have overlooked that the same Divinhood started [...]

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Welcome back to the History of Diving Museum Collections Blog! You may have noticed we have taken a month long hiatus from online diving history. We are pleased to be sharing all new topics on items within the museum’s collection. In our second series, we will cover part II of the U.S. Navy Mark V, [...]

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It’s hard to believe, but the History of Diving Museum Collections Blog is entering into its third month of online diving history! The focus of this blog has been to inform readers on the history of artifacts within the collection. So far, I have chosen only those items with great significance to diving and Florida [...]

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The History of Diving Museum (HDM) displays many artifacts that are one of a kind, the first or simply the rarest in existence. However, out of the many priceless artifacts, the Cabirol Petroleum lamp is extremely rare and cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Significant from both a technological and conceptual standpoint, the [...]

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The History of Diving Museum displays the largest collection of historical diving aparatus in the world. Out of the hundreds of diving helmets on display, Dr. Sally Bauer (co-founder of the History of Diving Museum) values one helmet in particular as most significant to the museum. The Morse diving helmet, inscribed with the serial No. [...]

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The evolution of modern salvage diving can be understood through the life of one man, Art McKee. Long before Mel Fisher discovered the Atocha, McKee stood as the consummate symbol of Florida Keys treasure hunting. This is the story of his life and how he came to be known as the “Father of Modern Treasure [...]

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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 bit of history and pictorials. The [...]

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