2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
If you ask any boy, or even an adult, about who the people in spacesuits are, then everyone, as one, without much hesitation, will definitely answer that they are astronauts. But such equipment as a spacesuit was originally intended for the conquerors of the deep sea - divers. The word "suit" in Greek literally means "boat-man".
Why do we remember these people in space suits only when we hear congratulations on the Diver's Day? Why did it happen that the profession of an astronaut became a dream for many boys and gained wide popularity, while such a no less dangerous and heroic profession as a diver is undeservedly forgotten and little known?
What kind of profession is a diver?
May 5 is Diver's Day. And what do we really know about this profession? Quite a bit, especially if you live far from the sea or a full-flowing river.
Erudites will affirmatively report that this is a low-demand, especially dangerous and rather rare "harmful" profession, fraught with a risk to life. And they will be mistaken: the labor of divers is in demand and is used verywide. Such specialists maintain underwater structures, offshore oil platforms and hydroelectric power stations, carry out ship repair work, explore water bodies, and participate in rescue operations. In general, it’s impossible to list everything, since people of this profession are generalists and perform underwater what a locksmith and an electric welder, a researcher and a scientist, a rescuer and a military man do on the shore.
So Diver's Day is a day of brave, hardy and courageous conquerors of the water element, a day of generalists. It's just a shame that humanity knows very little about the achievements of people in this profession and has undeservedly forgotten the names of its best representatives.
Dive into historical depths
Day of the diver in Russia was officially declared as a holiday in 2002. The date of the celebration - May 5, was not chosen by chance. It is dedicated to the day of the establishment of the Kronstadt diving school, the first institution in the world where diving was taught.
It was on May 5, 1882, at the initiative of the Russian naval commanders K. P. Pilkina and V. P. Verkhovsky, Emperor of Russia Alexander III signed a nominal decree, which stipulated the main task of the school - the training of lower ranks and officers experienced in diving, for ship repair work and underwater mining. Captain 1st rank Vladimir Pavlovich Verkhovsky was able to fulfill the dream of his life - he was appointed the first head of an educational institution that has no analogues in the world.
In honor of the recognition of the merits of the Russiansdivers from this date began to count and the current representatives of the profession.
At present, in Kronstadt, on the site of the former home of one of the founders of the diving school, shipowner and shipbuilder M. O. Britnev opened the Maritime Museum. I would very much like grateful descendants to visit its walls not only on Diver's Day, but to be constantly interested in the history of heroic submariners.
Mermaid divers
It would seem that Diver's Day is a holiday for men. However, "there are women in Russian villages …" who are not inferior to men in courage. It was they who devoted themselves to working in the depths of the sea.
One of them, she is the only female diver in the former USSR, is Galina Aleksandrovna Shurepova. She has 3,000 hours spent at depth. May 5th is a double holiday for Shurepova - every close person sends her congratulations on Diver's Day and on her birthday.
By the way, Shurepova dubbed Anastasia Vertinskaya's Gutierre in the film Amphibian Man, the first Soviet science fiction film to be filmed underwater.
Shurepova's record for staying under water was recently broken by Svetlana Matveychuk from Kharkiv. This little mermaid managed to accumulate 4,500 underwater hours.
Join the ranks of divers
On Diver's Day, May 5, many people have a unique opportunity to get acquainted with representatives of the profession not only on land, but also to dive into the depths of the sea together with the heroes of the occasion. First of all, divers, of course, will not fail to take advantage of this, for who,if not they, can understand why the sea is so attracted to itself and how beautiful the world of its inhabitants is!
Let this day bring together diving enthusiasts and professional divers into a common and friendly family, and the date of May 5 will not only be the opening of the season, but also an occasion to once again meet all those who are in love with the sea!
Congratulations
Diver's Day is not complete without solemn gatherings, where veterans and deep diving professionals are honored and rewarded. Many kind words and good wishes sound in their honor.
We sincerely admire our heroes and join in the congratulations addressed to them:
Being a diver is not only an honor –
This is the profession of brave men.
At the risk of life in any weather
You plunge into the depths of the deeps.
May luck be with you everywhere –
The one who spoke to Neptune on "you", He does not expect a miracle from nature, he does it
Proved to everyone who is the master of water!
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