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Show Divers in Ancient History. The earliest mention of diving Is made by Homer, about 850 B. C, In the "Iliad," when Patroclns compares the fall of. Hector's charioteer to a diver diving for oysters; and Thucy-dides Thucy-dides tells of divers being used to remove re-move submarine barriers placed with (be object of Impeding or injuring the Grecian fleet at the siege of Syracuse. Syra-cuse. These divers had no apparatus save a stone to carry them quickly to the bottom and to cling to for the brief period, about two minutes, they could stay below. This Is called natural nat-ural diving and Is still In use for collecting col-lecting sponges and pearls at Ceylon and in the Mediterranean. |