TRITONIA Diving Armor is a collectible figurine, hand-painted by the artist, ready to please the eyes. The figure perfectly matches the scale of the others from the "professional diver" series and perfectly complements the collection. Thanks to the same scale, they look perfect together and all accessories such as the case and lighting match each other.
Type: collectible figurine
Diver height: diver with base 20,5cm
Materials used:: resin, magnets, acrylic paints, varnish satin
Time from order to shipping: about 4 month + shipping time (depends on the country of delivery)
Historical note: In 1930 Peress revealed the Tritonia suit. By May it had completed trials and was publicly demonstrated in a tank at Byfleet. In September Peress' assistant Jim Jarrett dived in the suit to a depth of 123 m (404 ft) in Loch Ness. The suit performed perfectly, the joints proving resistant to pressure and moving freely even at depth.
The suit was offered to the Royal Navy which turned it down, stating that Navy divers never needed to descend below 90 m (300 ft).
Jim Jarrett made a deep dive to 305 m (1,001 ft) on the wreck of the RMS Lusitania off south Ireland, followed by a shallower dive to 60 metres (200 ft) in the English Channel in 1937 after which, due to lack of interest, the Tritonia suit was retired. Peress abandoned work on diving suits and instead turned to pioneering work in plastic moulding, later forming a company which became the world's largest manufacturer of gas turbine blades for the aircraft industry.
