Diving bell used to salvage Caligula galleys
Last updated: November 1, 2017 at 2:53 am
[ 1535 ] Italian Guglielmo de Lorena successfully uses a diving bell equipped with a glass port to salvage Caligula’s imperial galleys in Lake Nemi. The two vessels built for the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century CE, are later recovered from the lake bed in 1929, but they are destroyed by fire during WWII in 1944.
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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.