Diving in a Swindell helmet was like having
your head inside a washing machine , there’s always water on the inside, and air
coming into the helmet made that much noise you would have to turn it off so you could use the communication system to the surface.
The Swindell didn’t have any bail out system (safety system) .If the compressor on the surface failed there could
be time to surface safely on the compressors air bank. ( known as PIG’s
) .
In the event of anything else going wrong you had a big problem.
The communication system inside the helmet had two little speakers that had to be kept
dry by keeping them in a couple of durex !!!