Sladen Suit

The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman.[1] It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives. It was used by British manned torpedo riders and for general underwater work.

Diver in Sladen Suit

It was sometimes nicknamed "Clammy Death".[2]

The first model had two small glazed viewports. It was redesigned with the single oval flip-up viewport so the wearer could get binoculars to his eyes.

"Universal" rebreather

There was an oxygen rebreather called the "Universal" that was designed to be used with it. The Universal was a long-dive derivative of the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.

  • Brian Evenson's collection of literary horror, Windeye, includes a story entitled, and about, "The Sladen Suit."

References
  1. Gay-French, S. (August 1946). "Oto-Rhinological Problems of Offensive Diving". The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 61 (8): 417–440. doi:10.1017/S0022215100008240. ISSN 1748-5460. PMID 20254596. S2CID 42615090.
  2. A Submarine at War : the Brief Life of HMS Trooper. David Grant. Penzance, Cornwall: Periscope Pub. 2006. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-904381-33-4. OCLC 488492757.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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