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- 1939-05-12
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Diving on Narrows Bridge Project. Picture of the diving barge with the rigging for deep sea diver Johnny Bacon. Roy Shannon, tender for Bacon, with headphones, is pictured third from left. Diver Bacon is currently working about 90 feet under the surface, placing a cable around a broken anchor brick for the east caisson. He communicates with Shannon through the headphone, although speaking is difficult and tiring due to the pressure on his body and suit. Although the diver calls all the shots, even while underwater; his life is in the tender's hands. The tender controls the air hose. (T. Times, 5/12/1939, p. 1).
Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Skin diving--1930-1940; Shannon, Roy; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma);