References:<\/strong><\/p>\nMaritime Museum file number 198<\/p>\n
Maritime Museum file number 199<\/p>\n
Maritime Museum file number 204<\/p>\n
Maritime Museum file number 205<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viable diving equipment was developed by an Englishman, John Lethbridge, during the 18th century.\u00a0 These old-fashioned diving suits, often made of canvas and rubber as in the case of the Museum\u2019s example, had weighted items such as boots and chest weights to keep the diver submerged. Someone had to be on the surface at all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassstraitmaritimecentre.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}