Sculpture made of steel sheets welded together around a signpost swimming, showing a kneeled man in an atmospheric diving suit, above him a scuba diver with on his shoulders a young man. Divers acts as an informal sign for Whitstable Leisure Pool and celebrates Whitstable as the home of deep sea diving where the diving helmet was first invented.
Signature
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Annotation
In 1829 Charles Anthony Deane and John Deane of Whitstable designed the first air-pumped diving helmet for use with a diving suit.
Sculptor
Paul Richardson (1967),
British sculptor with steel
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