Siebe Gorman Beach Recovery Suit
Robert Davis book Deep Diving and Submarine operations refers to the Beach Recovery Suit as used in the Normandy beach landings. The suit has great similarities with the Salvus diving pattern 3485 however it is equipped with a waterproof swimming suit. It is unclear whether this suit was actually used for this purpose as no documentation of its use has been found by me to date. Dunlop suits were used in Normandy, but these were equipped with a different diving system than the one shown on the suit.
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