This museum is dedicated to the memory of
John W. Peck, Junior. Mr. Peck was an employee and close friend of Dick
Wilgus - owner of Dive Toledo and this museum. Mr. Peck was a diving instructor
and a commercial diver who was lost in an unfortunate diving accident while
on a commercial dive.
The museum contains a large selection of
diving equipment and supplies covering military, commercial and sport diving.
This vintage equipment ranges from an 1942 Lionell brass compass made for
the U. S. Navy to items produced in the mid-1980s.
Among the vast selection of regulators shown, there
is a diverse range of the old double hose regulators.
The museum also boasts a good collection of books,
magazines and catalogs of diving equipment from the early 1950s onward.
The museum also has some wood carvings from
Belize, lots of nostalgia, and many item that were homemade by divers before
comparable commercially produced equipment was made - such as underwater
lighting form automotive and aircraft lights.
MUSEUM HOURS
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Sunday - Thursday
Closed Wednesday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Friday
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Saturday