Timeline of underwater technology
- 1716 – Edmund Halley builds a diving bell
- 1772 – Sieur Freminet builds the first scuba device, but dies from lack of oxygen after 20 minutes
- 1801 – Robert Fulton builds the first submarine
- 1819 – Augustus Siebe invents a diving suit which receives air pumped down from the surface
- 1934 – Charles Beebe dives to 3,028 feet using a bathysphere
- 1943 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes the first scuba dive with a compressed-air aqualung
- 1948 – Auguste Piccard sends the first bathyscape, FNRS-2, on unmanned
dives - 1954 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched
- 1954 – first manned dives in FNRS-2
- 1956 – first wetsuit was introduced
- 1958 – USS Nautilus completes the first ever voyage under the polar ice to the North Pole and back
- 1960 – Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, descend to the
deepest known point in the ocean in the bathyscape Trieste - 1960 – USS Nautilus completes the first ever underwater circumnavigation
- 1983 – Orca Edge dive computer was introduced.
- 1985 – The wreck of the Titanic was found.