One of my favorite sets of all time. Still have the sub built.

Divers was released in such a strange way. More sets than basically any other theme/subtheme of the era, and at least half of them were limited-release in some way or another.

Love this theme and this set. This is the only one I own. Todays divers sets aren't bad either but the simplicity of the 90's were grand...

So many useful pieces in this set.

Despite still being very into Aquazone and that kind of sci-fi scuba at the time were released, I still thought these were cool. They’re all such solid builds, and the environments the bigger sets came with were great

@MCLegoboy said:
"I love all the spikes running down the back of the stingray. I've never heard of that being a thing in the real world, but they look cool and I kept them when I made a big version in an Aqua Raiders MOC I made years ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mclegoboy/albums/72157633271567535
https://web.archive.org/web/20130424074325/http://mocpages.com/moc.php/358210
Sorry to shill my own stuff, but you know, context."

Stingrays are chordates, so it may be a notochord.

What a contrast to the other "Town" sets released that year! In fact, here the juniorised sets were released under "Town" whike the divers had their own "Diving" theme (not as subtheme!).

I bought this set with my Christmas money in 1997 and I don't regret a penny of it. I loved how the sub has room for a passenger at the terminal in the back.

I have some of the bricks from an old lot of LEGO I bought earlier this year. The sting ray I had to study quite a bit to be sure it really was LEGO. I think the quality of the plastic is so not LEGO, and no text at all could reveal it's origin. But when I compare it to the pictures, I could find, it definitely looks like the LEGO sting ray.

This sub is the best medium-small sub in the entire theme, maybe even ever. It's perfectly articulated, airtight, has a bulb canopy amd large enough to feature a second seat with console in the back!
The terrain and stingray elevate this one even further!

This subtheme was great for sure, I only had 6559 : Deep Sea Bounty but that set would still fit in with the 2015 or 2020 deep sea sets today, for it's time , the skeleton build was quite unique.

60221 : Diving Yacht was a good standalone set in 2019, and then the 60264 : Ocean Exploration Submarine , 60265 : Ocean Exploration Base or even 70433 : J.B.'s Submarine & 31090 : Underwater Robot (a minifig does fit inside), and are sets that I have.

Even Friends had multiple underwater rescue type of sets recently , which even continues with a small turtle rescue beach quad for 2022.

@Zordboy said:
"Funnily enough, this was one of the old Town sets I bought, this year.

These divers sets were great. I loved the focus on the underwater terrain, with the sand-coloured base-plates. Plus, the treasure, and -- at the time -- so many cool animal molds."
I accidentally bought another set from the Divers range, 6599 Shark Attack, which I never had reason to open. So somewhere in my reserve collection I have it MISB.

The main picture Brickset has for 6599 doesn’t do the set justice. The alternative picture Brickset has shows what the set contains more clearly.

@ambr said:
"The panel with porthole part 30080c01 was unique to the diver series for one year only, even though it could have had so many uses in subsequent underwater, arctic or space sets."

The part did reappear once more in 1999, in 5956 Expedition Balloon - one of my childhood favourite sets! The difference is that it had a trans-clear window in that instance, rather than the trans-light blue one of the Divers sets, so Bricklink recognises it as a different part number (30080c02) even though they are otherwise the same.

I love Lego stingrays like the one in this set. Mostly because 6198 was an elusive mystery to me as a kid - it was out of stores by the time I got into Lego, but I saw pictures of it on the Aquazone section of the Lego website of the day and was enticed and thrilled by both it specifically and the stingray-looking aesthetic as a whole - which by extension gave me a big fondness for the stingray part in general, even though I never owned any.

Maybe it's time for Lego to do a new stingray-inspired set of some form...?

Uh wow I loved this set back then. I'm surprised it's still in relatively good condition today^^

Ok, first of my usual rant: Divers is NOT a sub-theme of Town. Instead it is a Theme of it's own that is connected as much or as little to Town as Trains, Boats or City is.

Next up:
The minifigures. One of the scuba gear guys might be either Captain Chester or Diver Dan.
Names for Divers figures were pretty messed up, even by 1997 standards, so I'm not really sure who is actually who. Mania Magazine May 1997 identified the white haired guy as Diver Dan, whilst the Shop at Home catalogue says it's the bearded guy. I think I even saw one source claiming the blue diver to be Dan. Captain Chester appeared in LEGO World Club Magazine and the Time Cruisers board game (not the RoseArt one) and might just be Diver Dan's name in German or Danish.
The submarine operator (who is actually female according to Mania Magazine) can be identified as Scuba Sandy.

It appears that there are like 2 'factions' in the Divers theme: The red 'submarine' Divers and the blue 'dolphin' Divers, each bearing a different logo and diving suit color and no set contains figures of both factions.
Their roles can not be clearly identified by the sets themselves, nor does any 'lore' description refer to this distinction. However, my rough guess is that the original concept was, that the red ones are more a professional research team, whilst the blue ones seem to be more like sports or hobby divers (red has larger ships and the underwater base, blue has a jet-ski and the rubber dinghi truck).

To the Parts:
I really, really loved those green flame pieces, they make some nicely weird fire breath effects on Basil the Batlord's Dragon or be a color match for Majisto's Ogwen.

The end panels on the subamrine do actually line up with the good old space wall panels (and mostly come in yellow), so might be useful for Blacktron MOCs. The straight ones last appeared in the Adventurers Blimp 5956 .

It can not be seen from the picture, but the set did come with 2 additional red caps, the Divers can wear outside the water... (I think they were shown in the instructions, lying in the back part of the sub, which also contains a nice little fish computer print^^)

I didn't know that the chrome headlight dishes and towball clips would become so rare one day.

And lastly, the stickers:
This set actually did come with 2 different sticker sheets, one that was exclusive to this set (even having the sets number on it) and another, that was in most larger Divers sets, to decorate the LURP. It featured many sea creatures on it, that at the time had no element to represent them. Also not all of the stickers on the sheet were used in the instructions.

I see no Troy Tempest!