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Rosalia (Zale) Parry (born March 19, ) is an American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress....
Zale Parry
American scuba diver, photographer and actress (born 1933)
Rosalia (Zale) Parry (born March 19, 1933)[1] is an American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress.
Diving
Parry started diving in the 1940s as a young girl.
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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 19, 1933, she was raised on a Wisconsin lake and learned to swim and love the water at an early age. As a young woman, while working in Santa Monica, California, for the Douglas Aircraft Company, she became involved in pioneering diving and scientific work Sports Illustrated magazine.[2] In 1953 she became a tester of underwater equipment for Scientific Underwater Research Enterprises.
Later, she and her partner, (Parry Bivens, an aeronautical and aquatic engineer) designed, built, and marketed the first civilian hyperbaric chamber for divers. They were evangelists for the purchase of hyperbaric chambers around the world to provide lifesaving facilities for divers suff