From his specially constructed diving bell, he drew with a soft pencil on green-colored varnished paper. He put his drawings in a tin box to send up to the surface, and he later overpainted them with oil.
According to the Public Domain Review, the submersible measured three feet high by two and a half wide and deep, and was made:
"of sheet iron and inch-thick glass, had the user's legs sticking out of the bottom so that he could propel himself along the seabed at a depth of five meters or so. It was weighed down by cannonballs, and with air pumped in, the diving bell allowed him to descend for sessions of up to three hours."
Eugen Ransonnet-Villez on Wikipedia
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