Popular Culture
- While searching for Red Rackham's Treasure, Tintin, Captain Haddock, and the Thompson Twins used diving suits, with varying levels of success.
- "Big Daddies" from the video game BioShock wear Standard Diving Dress, with each variation wearing a different style of suit and helmet; "Bouncers" (close-combat with a mining drill) wear Carmagnolle helmets, while "Rosies" (long range with a rivet gun) wear a more traditional three-port helmet.
- The 2000 film Men of Honor, which was set in the 1950s, prominently featured divers in Standard Diving Dress.
In at least two fictional scenarios, standard diving dress is used out of water as a spacesuit:
- In First Men in the Moon (1964 film) in the events set in year 1899.
- In Stargate SG-1 (season 1) episode 11, by a man sent through the Stargate experimentally in 1945: see also http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s1/110.shtml
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