Army Frogmen Aka Army Frogman Training (1961)

Marchwood, Hampshire. L, S panning across the harbour; various ships are seen in the distance; on the quay beside us are four frogmen in diving suits with air cylinders on their backs. An army officer checks their equipment as we hear they are from the Royal Engineers, and are shallow water divers. The men line up along the quay and jump in. Various shots of the men swimming on their backs to the target zone as commentator tells us the frogmen are used when there s a need for a silent, unseen approach. On land we see M, S of a soldier working a large air pump with a long hose attached to a diving rig. M, S on the top of the rig shows a man in a full oldfashioned diving costume with bowlshaped helmet and weighted shoes. A soldier fits the air hose to the diving suit while an officer crouches beside a kind of radio transmitter. The diver climbs down a ladder into the diving rig. The soldiers at the top of the rig light an underwater cutter and lower it into the water. Underwater M, Ss of the di