ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses millions of young men and women in the Soviet Union who did not take part in the war either as soldiers or partisans. It is impossible to go far with a diving dress to which air is pumped through long tubes. So the divers use dresses of a type developed during the war for offensive operations. The divers carry enough oxygen compressed in small cylinders to last them for about two hours, or with some apparatus, five hours, during hard work, and much longer if they are at rest. It is very impressive, after descending to the bottom of a pool about two metres deep, to crawl head-first down a narrow hole to a depth of four or five metres, and then to drag oneself with the hands through a narrow and low-roofed tunnel until one emerges to stand up in a great underwater chamber, stretching far beyond the range of our powerful electric lamps.
