Divers Go Down to Andrea Doria One Week After Sinking

This newsreel from 1956 was the first dive by divers to the sunken Andrea Doria. Today the wreck is a rusted hulk. The Andrea Doria had a near twin sister called the SS Cristoforo Colombo. It lived it's last years in Venezuela as a boarding house for oil workers. It was scrapped in Taiwan in 1982.

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[Kwolfx]

Not to put these guys down, they did an incredible job with primitive equipment, but they weren't the first divers to reach the wreck.

Peter Gimble and Joseph Fox dove the Doria the day after it sank. In the early 1980's Gimble went back and recovered a safe and opened it on live TV. It had money and travelers checks but nothing else.

[jvarela965]

@Kwolfx The TV special hosted by Telly Savalas?

[henerymag]

These guys had balls like watermelons. No breathing mixtures, no positive idea of decompression, suits that offered little protection, they were truly brave men and pioneers of closed circuit diving

[ilovebutch19]

@Kwolfx I agree with yo. They did go down the day after the wreck.

[scubavader]

We've come a long way since then. Overly dramatic narrators talking about things they don't understand and hyping sharks. Leave the sharks alone. Fighting inflation? What, no dump valve? A burst eardrum? What, no training on how to equalize before going down? Interesting but 160 feet is not THAT deep.

[michaelwright999]

I WAS A FRIEND OF DIVER JOHN LIGHT 1969 IN KINSAIL WHERE HE WAS LIVING, ANYBODY KNOW IF HE IS STILL AROUND ??

[jvarela965]

@faerychel Good Grief

[faerychel]

@yepheth Another diver died this week at the Andrea Doria, and he was the 16th diver to loose their life.

[thebradybunchlover]

very rare! :) love to see wrecks when they're new! not a lot of those tho...

[rollingstopp]

perils oh the perils--damn just ram the doria with a ice cutter bow

[CatsGuidance]

Thanks for sharing! Great video, except for the part about the shark, which was awful!