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CONGRATULATIONS DIVE DIVA YOU ARE THE WINNER OF 5 FREE DAYS IN HAWAII because You knew this Historical Diving Question about the late E.R. Cross U.S. Navy Master Diver
Here is the deal this is a 3 part question. Get all 3 right and win a 5 day stay in Hawaii.
Who thinks they know this about the late Master Diver E.R. Cross.
1. What year did he made his first helmet dive and with what group?
2..What part of the World and exally where did he make that dive ?
3. Name the dive vessel.
The first right answer to all questions wins a free 5 day stay in Hawaii diving included. Included are Lots of free dive stories about Cross and others. Sorry transportation and food not included.
Good luck.
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Permalink Reply by Dive Diva on
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Okay Ace, I'll take the first nibble. The vessel was the USS Dobbin, a destroyer tender.
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Permalink Reply by A.. Parnell on
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Diva thats one right two more to go.
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Keep going two more right and you win the 5 nights for two stay on the Big Island.
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Mike Dive Diva has one third of it so far. Two more questions to go. Good job so far just naming the USS Dobbin was a real good trick.
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No winner yet ?
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Okay Ace let's see what we can do here :)
1. Cross didn't start out as a Navy diver. His job was swabbing the deck of the USS Dobbin. His area included the divers hand pump. After befriending the Dobbin divers they eventually dressed him out in an old Mark V and took him down. That was circa January 1933 and Cross was hooked.
In May 1934, Cross passed the exams for second class diver in San Diego Bay. In 1936 Cross was stationed in the far east. The statin didn't rate divers and Cross lost his diver qualification. It was while stationed in the Orent that Cross learned breath diving from the native pearl divers in Zamboanga, Phillippines.
Cross was stationed in Panama when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Navy was desperate for experienced divers and Cross volunteered. He was sent to diving officer school in Washington. In Oct 1942 Cross was busy salvaging the Normandy in NY harbor. Cross also was one of the 300 divers used by the Navy during the testing of he atomic bomb on Bikini atoll.
It's all yours Ace :)
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CONGRATULATIONS Dive Dive you are the winner of 5 free days stay in Kona, Hawaii on the Big Island of Hawaii for you and one other person. Unlimited diving please contact me when you are ready to come to the Islands.
That was very good research you provided and it provided a few things I had not heard of before. For the record though I want to add that Cross actually made his first dive in the Navy in late 1934 and yes it was off the Dobbin and it was exally in the middle of San Diego Bay while the Dobbin was moored to a large mooring bouy as the ships did back in the day.
How do I know this ? Well I happen to have a video that was shot on our boat back in 1996 when Cross was a guest along with several other HDSUSA members. In this video I asked him to tell us all of when and exally where he made his first dive in the Navy.
Dive Diva we look forward to having you come to the islands. Aloha
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Occasionally a product fails simply because it was ahead of its time. Among his less known accomplishments was the inventionNAND manufacture of the first commercial one-hose regulator, the Scuba King was made by E.R. Cross in 1954. It sold for $39.95 and that included a 38 cubic foot tank, but it was a failure in the marketplace. After Cross halted production, the remainder were sold out of a pickle barrel in a Los Angeles surplus store for $5 each. Today they are rare, valuable collector's items.
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Dive Diva your so right as US Divers came out with its first single hose regulator the Aquamatic in 1958 and that also became my first scuba regulator. I believe it sold for $29.00 there abouts.
The first dry suit front entry glue together kit in 1957 sold for $25.00 for a 13 yr old kid that was alot of money. I love being a diver and love it more still being able to do commercial and sport diving.
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