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58 photos and 3 illustrations tagged dive, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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• unitedstates
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• aerospace
• navymedicine
• nmotc
• hyperbarics
• underseamedicine
• navalaerospacemedicalinstitutenami
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• diving
• libraryofcongress
• woman
• aichi
• aeronautics
• sdasm
• hospitalcorps
• d3a1
• swimming
• women
• swimsuit
• divedivemedicaltechnician

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• Navy Medicine 22 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 15 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 12 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 4 photos & illustrations
• British Library 3 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo / illustration

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A woman (probably Beatrice Kerr) diving into water

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• beachcomber australia said:

  Callipygian!

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia What a great word :)

• beachcomber australia said:

  Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Indeed ! "They also came to see her in daring swimsuits, which were not made for fast times—her spangled costume weighed over five pounds (2.3 kg)." - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kerr-beatrice-maude-13024

Walter Lee (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  The swimming and diving photos in this batch may be related to the event reported in NYT, August 24, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE1DD123FE633A... Walter Lee is mentioned.

Hazel Bess Laugenour [i.e., Laugenour] "Neptunes Perfect Girl" (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Hazel Bess Langenour was apparently the first woman to swim across the San Francisco Bay, in 1911, when she was a 19-year-old college student. 10kswim.blogspot.com/2009/12/pioneering-women-in-san-fran...

• swanq said:

  By 1912, she was swimming in a tank in vaudeville! See San Francisco Call of June 3, 1912 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/beta/lccn/sn85066387/1912-06-0...

• hshekharayya said:

  A great photo.

• Yousef Malallah said:

  
  Award For Best Photo In The Universe (post1 – award 5)

• Arden said:

  Thank you Pennylrichardsca and swanq for the interesting story of Hazel Bess Langenour. We will add some details to the description when we update.