Jim
Lockwood
The man who pioneered
SCUBA diving
Member #31-1984
JIM was born around the turn of the
last century in Rockford, Illinois - about 45 miles NW of the city of
Chicago. He had a love of the water and in the late 1920's, sat for some
20 minutes at the bottom of the Rockford Boy's Club swimming pool, breathing
from an air bottle he had stuffed into a rucksack - and that was the beginning
of SCUBA technology.
He became very wealthy in later life and donated much to his native town of
Rockford, including a large city park.
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