Postage Stamps.
 

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This "Underwater Exploration" set was issued by Alderney in the UK Channel Islands in the "Past Times" series of stamps on the 10th of February 1998 to commemorate the 21st anniversary of Alderney Diving Club.  In all there were five stamps of various denominations plus if you bought what was called the "mini sheet", there was also an additional stamp with no definitive value.  The set was designed by Victoria Kinnersley and was sold as a set in a mint presentation pack, as a first day cover, as a "mini sheet" with the additional zero value stamp and of course as individual stamps as they were legal stamps for posting.  When the first day covers were franked, some (not all) were stamped with a small Heinke helmet which also adds to the interest of the diving theme.

The 20 pence stamp shows a Kirby Morgan superlite helmet, 30 pence has the Cousteau - Gagnan Demand Valve (1943), 37 pence shows a Heinke closed helmet (1845), 43 pence shows the Siebe closed helmet (1840) and finally the 63 pence stamp depicts the Deane open helmet (1829).  The non-definitive stamp shown on the "mini sheet" shows Lethbridge's barrel (1715). [pt]

I think this was issued in 1969 but don't know if it was one of a set of just a single stamp. 
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Published in 2003 as one of a set of 6 stamps called "Fading Trades". 
This one depicts a sponge diver but I am unsure what the five others are.

Subject: Tourism "Water Sports Scuba Diving" , 1976 
1 cent stamp depicting a scuba diver and a spear gun. I don't know if there were any others in the set. 
 

Republik of Indonesia 1966 
Hari Bahari stamps. 
 

This appears to be a Russian issue - my ignorance of the Russian language is hardly legendary but I need some help on this. It could be Bulgarian or one of the old Baltic states - I don't know. Help please!  [ps]

This in from Ray Cox, presume in USA.
Just a line to let you know that the stamp listed as Russia? on your site is Bulgarian as you suspected and is part of a set from 1973 on underwater research in the Black Sea (Gibbons Catalogue Bulgaria SG2214-2217)....if you Google Image “Bulgarian Diving Stamps” it will show you all stamps in set. Incidentally , if I can pick your brain, on the stamp in the set marked with the value 2cm, the divers are shown with a large yellow box like object....is this diving equipment or research equipment?
 

Thankyou Ray, much appreciate your input. I can see why you have asked the question on the identity of the 'yellow box'. Were it not for the divers, and the inference that it is underwater, I would suggest a decompression chamber which would be located  topside, usually on a diving vessel. If it is meant to be underwater, I would suggest an underwater habitat for saturation diving, where the diver enters from underneath and can remain at the ocean pressure for many hours or days before returning to the surface to recompress in a chamber. I am influenced by the two 'portholes'. I'm no expert of commercial diving equipment but my assumption is as good as any I suppose. It would be interesting to know why Bulgaria released such a stamp and I would suggest that the country has manufactured such equipment for the commercial oil and research industries. The 1cm stamp of course depicts underwater phoographers on scuba, which is usually recreational but could just as easiliy be commercial or scientific research.

Autonomous Diving 1825 to 1995 
A Philatelic Salute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau 
(Published for the Singapore Stamp Show in 1995) 
Published in 1995 by the Turks & Caicos Islands 
Consists of a "sheetlet of 9 stamps of identical denomination depicting the history of diving. Stamp subjects are: "Wm James Scuba 1825", "Rouquayrol Apparatus 1864", "Fleuss Oxygen Rebreathing Apparatus 1878", "Armoured Diving Suit c1900", "Jim Jannett Explores Sunken Lusitania in Peress Armoured Diving Suit 1935", "Cousteau Gagnan Aqualung 1943", "Underwater Camera c1955", "Sylvia Earle Dives to 1,520 feet in Jim Suit 1979" and "Spider, Propellor Driven Rigid Suit c1984". 
 

History of Underwater Exploration 
Earliest Divers 
Published in 1996 by the Turks & Caicos Islands 
(Sheetlet issued for the International Stamp Show in China 1996) 

Consists of a "sheetlet" of 9 stamps of identical denomination depicting the Earliest Divers: "Glaucus, God of Divers 2500 BC", "Alexander the Great Descends to Ocean Bottom 332 BC", "Salvage Diver 1430", "Borelli's Rebreathing Device 1680", "Edmund Halley's Diving Bell 1690", "John Lethbridge's Diving Machine 1715", "Klingert's Diving Apparatus 1789", "Drieberg's Triton 1808" and "siebe's Diving Helmet 1819". 

History of Underwater Exploration 
Shipwrecks, Discoveries and Recoveries 
Published in 1996 by the Turks & Caicos Islands 
(Sheetlet issued for the CAPEX Stamp Show in 1996) 
Consists of a "sheetlet" of 9 stamps of identical denomination depicting the shipwrecks, discoveries and recoveries: "1935 - Jim Jarrett in Iron Man armored diving Suit Explores the Lusitania SUnk in 1915", "1952 - Cousteau and His Team Excavate First Shipwreck Using Scuba Gear", "1959 - Oldest Shipwreck Ever Found Located Off the Coast of Turkey, Where it Had Rested for 33 Centuries", "1961 - Swedish Vasa, Sunk on Maiden Voyage in 1628, is Raised 3 Centuries Later with Cables and Pontoons", "1971 - Mel Fisher Discovers Spanish Galleon Atocha Sunk in 1622 With Treasure and Bronze Cannons", "1984 - The Whydah, First Pirate Ship Found, is Discovered by Barry Clifford with its Treasure", "1989 - Dr Ballard Using The Robot Argo Found the Dreadnought Bismark Sunk in 1941 in WWII", ""1991 - The Radau Land Tortoise, Scuttled in 1758 During the French and Indian War, Was Found in Lake George NY", and "1994 - Deep-Diving Neuclear Submarine Recovers Ancient Roman Shipwrecks Cargo". 
 

Treasure Hunting 1973 

Consists of two stamps (there may be more): 3 cent stamp depicts and early diving machine while the 30 cent stamp depict s a diver discovering a treasure chest. 
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Turks & Cacos 1973 
Treasure Hunting 
30 cent denomination stamp depicting a diver discovering a treasure chest. 
Maybe one of a set? 

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Turks and Caicos Islands 
(Date Unknown but believe c1971) 
Depicts a skin diver but what is interesting, the original value of the stamp of 8d has been blacked out with a circle and a new value of 7c stamped on, maybe by hand? Must have been issued at the time of decimalisation there in 1971. [pt]