Oxford scuba club celebrates 60th birthday
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Oxford Sub-Aqua Club is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding by releasing images of its early years.
Formed in 1956 when scuba diving was just emerging as an adventure sport, its founders equipped themselves with homemade neoprene suits and even woolly sweaters.
Some of its members later played a role in the resurrection of the Tudor warship the Mary Rose in 1982.
Today the group has 70 members and trains at Radley College Pool.
Horace Dobbs with his underwater 8mm cine-camera, pictured in 1960
Scuba divers from the club at Linkside Lake in north Oxford
A diver from the club helping hunt for a gold watch lost in the River Cherwell in 1958
George Watkins handing back the gold watch to its owner, a Miss Watts from Headington in Oxford
Roselyn Miles Wantage in one of the club’s earliest underwater photos
John Tipping emerging from a recreational dive at Durdle Door in Dorset
John Littlemore, who founded the branch and was the club's first diving officer, being assisted by Jack Blake, in 1957
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