The Sladen Suit was a heavy type of British divers' drysuit made by Siebe Gorman. It is entered by a wide rubber tube at the umbilicus: this tube is folded and tied off before the diver dives. It was used by British manned torpedo riders and for general underwater work.
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It was sometimes nicknamed "Clammy Death".
Its first make had two small eyeholes. It was redesigned with the big oval flip-up so the wearer could get binoculars to his eyes.
"Universal" rebreather
There was an oxygen rebreather called the "Universal" that was designed to be used with it. The Universal was a long-dive derivative of the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.
In popular culture
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