Triton magazines, by British Sub-Aqua Club, 1963

Triton magazines, 1963
Editor: Bernard Eaton

Triton was the official bimonthly magazine of the British Sub-Aqua Club that pre-dated Diver magazine.

6 magazines from the private collection of Lee Kenyon.
Remains of paper stickers at the top of several pages where paper bookmarks were removed.
Very good condition.

January-February. Annotations all over the cover. Margin annotations on p. 33. Otherwise good condition.
Contents: 2nd class diver’s view of World Congress; Preservation of specimens; Deep diving in new aqualungs; Leopard-spotted goby; Free diving and coast research; Divers for geology.

March-April. Peter Small memorial issue. 40 pages.
Contents: Breakthrough dive at Teneriffe; Seafari to the Isle of Man; Explosives; Peter Small and the fatal dive; The mistakes at Catalina.

May-June. 40 pages.Very good condition.
Contents: Sharks and shark killers; Hannes Keller’s future plans; Undersea living 30 years ago; Your chance to take the treasure trail; British divers abroad; Make your own flash gun.

July-August. 40 pages. Cover inscribed ‘Deep Sea Research Projects’. Remains of paper stickers at top of some pages.
Contents: Stoney Cove; The future of the Trieste; Mine off Church Rocks; Lake Taupo diving.

September-October. 40 pages. Cover inscribed ‘Living U/W. Channel wrecks’. Red margin marks on page 20.
Contents: SS Maine; Ocean research; Treasure of the Deep competition; The problems of living underwater; Jack Taylor; Christopher Whittaker; Spear fishing; The Undersea Challenge; the cause of fatal accidents.

November-December. 46 pages. Cover inscribed ‘Channel ship, Maine’.
Contents: Triton’s science advisers; Contact lens vs. face mask; Fidel Castro; Underwater archaeology in the Thames; Maine; Arthur C Clarke and ‘Treasure of the Great Reef’; New standards for first class divers; Barnacles; Spearfishing in Britain.

40-46 pages
Black and white photographs.
182 mm x 238 mm (approx. 7 in x 9.5 in)
1963, British Sub-Aqua Club, London.