You all know about Anthony Appleyard's divers and other freestuff. The Silent Enemy is a 1958 movie, depicting some of the remarkable events that happened around Gibralter during WW2, involving British and Italian frogmen.

Well, I'm working on a serries of stories about a special forces type of guy, just before WW2, in a vert alternate universe. With very alternate pictures...

What I'm looking for are the following:

WW2 frogman suit and gear It doesn't need to be deadly accurate, but wet-suit style gear seems wrong. There's some crossover with the Submarine Escape Apparatus of the time.

An earl;y-style Higgins Boat (not the ramped landing craft) would also fit the setting well.

At least one of the stories is going to include folding canoes--think Operation Frankton--landing through surf on an open beach.

And these guys also do parachute stuff, using British-style parachutes. (I'll have a pnoy while I'm at it.)

Anyway, lets have some nautical pulp adventure.

(See here for the setting

I remember reading about the Italian "chariots" & also the mini-sub attack on the Tirpitz. Hellish enough in a regular sub back then, much less in those contraptions. I've been wondering for years, do you work in the dusty bowels of the Imperial War Museum? Your knowledge of militaria seems endless.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

Three things: a retentive memory, a wide vocabulary and a fervent devotion to the Pope...

Four things?

Ah, a spook then - as the Pope has no need of divisions :-)

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken

How about the divers in this picture - the breathing equipment and chariot is AA's and the suits are Poserworld 'lab' suits.

And this picture - both in the gallery:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1560156

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1550377

Good luck with the project.

The Poserworld lab suit is a good idea. Thanks.

I think I may be able to get my paws on a US Navy diving manual. At least I should get something useful about decompression stages.

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Subject: The Silent Enemy (WW2 Divers)