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The article narrates deep-diving experiences of the author. The author learned diving when he was serving the U.S. Navy. The diving dress is made of solid sheet of India rubber, covered on both sides with tanned twill cloth. One day his instructor Jake Anderson took the author and his friends into an open thirty-two foot boat and heaved a towline to a small torpedo boat. They were towed to calm spot in Narragansett Bay, near Fort Adams in Rhode Islands. The water was about fifty feet deep. He ordered the author to put on the diving suit and go for a dive.

The article discusses the S 250, a one-man submarine that can be operated by anyone, dive safely to 250 feet, stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs 12,000 dollars without extras. The submarine is from George Kittredge, who is a retired Navy submarine commander and producer of simple-to-operate baby submarines in Warren, Maine. It mentions Harold Jacobson, a professional diver based in Warwick, Rhode Island who operates a training school called Sub-Sea Inc. It stresses that the baby submarine could usher in a new era of travel, undersea exploration or even the development of undersea colonies.