Hans Hass is dead...

[CG-45.com]

I'm very sad...The Austrian underwater pioneer and oceanographer Hans Hass is dead...
diepresse.com/home/science/1421726/Hans-Hass-ist-tot_Unterwasserpionier-starb-94jaehrig

[SeaRat]

Oh no, oh no, oh no!

www.hans-hass.de/

Hans Hass spent his third chapter trying to help humanity. I'm trying to find the page I've seen in the past, but he had some very, very interesting ideas late in life.

I found it, and it is called the Energon Theory. Here's a page in English about this theory of Hans Hass:

www.hans-hass.de/5.html

In my retirement, I'm going to be looking more closely it his theories. They fascinate me. Here is the first paragraph in German and English of the above link:

Der österreichische Unterwasserpionier und Meeresforscher Hans Hass ist tot. Wie seine Familie am Samstag mitteilte, starb Hass am vergangenen Sonntag (16. Juni) im Alter von 94 Jahren in Wien. Heute, Samstag, fand die Beerdigung im engsten Familienkreis auf dem Hietzinger Friedhof statt. Die Einblicke des Zoologen in die Unterwasserwelt eröffneten einem breiten Publikum ein völlig unbekanntes Universum. Mit seinen Büchern, Filmen und Vorträgen wurde er zu einer Legende...

The Austrian underwater pioneer and oceanographer Hans Hass is dead. As announced by his family on Saturday, Hass died last Sunday (June 16) at the age of 94 years in Vienna. Today, Saturday, the funeral was held at the Hietzing Cemetery in the immediate family. The insights of zoologists in the underwater world opened to a wide audience a totally unknown universe. With his books, films and lectures, he became a legend...

John

[Linda]

Oh dear, very sad indeed. His wife Lotte is one of the great diving pioneers, too, and I believe she is still alive? Anyway, very sad, yes, such a huge loss.

[SeaRat]

Here is the translation of the writing about Lotte Hass on the Hans Hass website above:

The cinema Mermaid

The success of the movies "Adventures in the Red Sea" and "enterprise Xarifa" by Hans Hass would have been impossible without the cooperation and support of his wife, Lotte. Only by Lotte Hass, who participated as an underwater model and underwater photographer during the shooting, they became the worldwide blockbuster.

Lotte Hass gave the documentary by Hans Hass, the ultimate glamor and transformed them into movies that captivated an audience of millions. A pretty girl between sharks appeared completely fearless, graceful moves through underwater forests and entertains with Viennese charm with the scientists aboard her research, was a never-before-seen novelty - and all under the most difficult expedition conditions in the hottest area of ​​the earth . She stole the show every shark.

The illustrated magazines scrambled to get interviews with Lotte Hass, and there is no prominent journal on whose cover she was not to see at least once. Although she had no acting training, convinced her performance on camera so much that she got the mid-1950s many offers from Hollywood. Among other things, wanted to Sol Lesser, owner of RKO Pictures, commit them exclusively for several years for his films. RKO was next to MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner one of the "Big Five" film studios in Hollywood.

Lotte Hass refused all offers, because it was not her to a career as a successful international actress. Instead, they remained on the side of Hans Hass, with whom she is now married for 62 years.

Lotte Hass has been incorporated in 2000 as the first European in the "Woman Divers Hall of Fame," and ever since it joined numerous other honors to. Today is Lotte Hass as "First Lady of Diving", as the "girl on the ocean floor" and paved the way for the "submarine equality" between men and women.

If you'll go to the Media section, I've posted a You Tube link to a one-hour plus film by Dr. Hans Hass about diving in the Red Sea. It prominently features Lotte Hass.

John

[sidm]

Prof. Hass had a tremendous influence on diving, underwater photography, underwater eduction, and marine science. He preceded Cousteau by several years in his efforts to write about and photograph the underwater world. Sadly, he is more well known in Europe than in the US. His loss is a sad event, however his legacy will live on for a long time.

[donpaul]

RIP waterman, calm blue seas.

Such a inspiration in my life.

Sincerely, Don Paul

[jon]

"We Come From The Sea"

[SeaRat]

While Professor Hans Hass has passed, Trapezius over on ScubaBoard posted a very interesting link, which is one of his original films in German and in black and white. I think you will enjoy it even if you don't understand the narration.

John

[sidm]

Just learning that Lotte Hass, Hans' wife, has also recently passed away. Now Jacques and Simone Cousteau, Hans and Lotte Hass are gone. Last of the original diving dynsties.

[surflung]

- It is amazing to see Hans and Lotte Hass flitting about underwater, so unencumbered and happy with their oxygen re-breathers... When now-a-days we think of such equipment as deadly dangerous. And in these days of such easy underwater photography (with GoPro and such) it is amazing to look upon such an exquisite underwater camera system as designed by Hans Hass in the Rollei Marine. I wish his books and movies were available in English. Rest in Peace Hans Hass.