Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This Lightweight Diving Dress or dive suit was worn by Underwater Construction Battalion Seabee Divers in the 1970s. It was commonly referred to as a “bunny suit” because of the folded bun “tail” which creates the watertight seal with the folded white waterproof canvas fabric. It was the lightweight version of the deep sea dress, the Mark V, which was used with the MK V hardhat rig.
A diver would don the suit from the back and wore a weight belt and lead-soled boots with canvas uppers and bronze toe caps to control buoyancy. As it was a “dry” suit, you could wear long underwear and wool socks to keep warm.
A “Jack Browne” diving mask was normally worn with the bunny suit and it provided similar protection like the MK V deep sea mask, except it was used for lighter work in shallower depths. Air to the mask was controlled with a simple valve operated by the diver with a hand wheel. Unlike the MK V helmet, the Jack Browne diving mask had no voice communications built in, so they communicated on the surface via line pull signals.
This example is NOS and still contained in its original cardboard box which is well marked and dated 3/69 for March, 1969. There is no size marking but it…
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