In 1930 Salvage Ship Artiglio entered the SS Egypt
06 April 2011
In May 1922 P&O's steamship
Egypt sunk
forty miles off the coast of France with a treasure of gold
worth more than a million pounds sterling in her strong room.
David Scott wrote the book "Seventy Fathoms Deep" about the
divers of the Salvage Ship Artiglio. On this page you find
impressions how the Salvage used Atmospheric suits of
Neufeldt und Kuhnke and Observation chambers. Again artist
Mr. Charles Daigneault managed to draw the observation chamber
used by Alberto Gianni and others. He achieved a realistic
effect to show how these pioneers dived with oxygen rebreathers
to the wreck of the Egypt. Mr. Daigneault used some of Lee
Bishop's pictures for a background. Mr. Lee Bishop kindly
allowed me to put these pictures available for you. Lee Bishop
actually dived the wreck in the 2001 expedition. Check for his
real fantastic foto's here: