It looks like a cross between a diving suit from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Michelin Man, but the hard diving suit on display at the Offshore Technology Conference is neither science fiction ...

Turns out that, aside from the drill-arm, Big Daddies aren’t that far off from the real thing. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the toughest examples of deep-sea diving suits around—from da ...

Equipment used by divers on the first Tacoma Narrows bridge was state-of-the-art gear in 1939, but it now looks almost comically antiquated. The divers wore heavy rubber suits over wool pants and ...

Long before we had spacesuits, we had diving suits. The ocean was the first hostile environment that we sent people into, completely covered with protective gear. And the suits that people created ...