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Post by technidiver on Nov 25, 2015 4:47:56 GMT -8
Hey! I watched the James Bond Thunderball movie and saw some really interesting Vintage a Scuba gear. Sean Connery had a massive UW Scooter that had tanks and spear guns attached to it.
Does anybody have any memories or actually have a Vintage UW Scooter?
TD
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Post by regulator68bj on Nov 25, 2015 8:15:54 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 25, 2015 8:40:17 GMT -8
When I have a spare moment I'll try to get some screen grabs from "The Mermaids of Tiburon"...
JB
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Post by surflung on Nov 25, 2015 10:18:19 GMT -8
- Our good Vintage diving buddy Jerry Lang has restored an original Voit PortaSub. We dove it in Fortune Pond in 2014 and again in Lake Wazee in 2015. I shot GoPro video both times. This still shot is from the GoPro video shot at Wazee just this past Spring. - There's a good bit of the Wazee PortaSub footage in the "Ultimate Vintage" video I posted here.  |
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Post by technidiver on Nov 25, 2015 12:47:47 GMT -8
Wow! That is a nice UW Scooter! Hmm, might have to watch the movie Mermaids of Tiburon...
Thanks again,
TD
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 25, 2015 14:39:45 GMT -8
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Post by technidiver on Nov 25, 2015 17:43:40 GMT -8
Thanks guys! I'll check that movie out on amazon! I'm also gonna check out a UW Scooter demo at my LDS! Cool!
Thanks,
TD
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 26, 2015 16:54:59 GMT -8
Okay, I finally got my Photoshop Elements loaded onto my "new" computer, and was able to convert this screen shot tiff to jpeg so I could upload it to PhotoBucket. This is one of the underwater scooters from Thunderball:  I got it from this Thunderball Official Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JowkFmI1FoJohn |
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Post by technidiver on Nov 26, 2015 17:25:07 GMT -8
Awww! That is a really nice scooter! I would love a replica of that. Ha! The LDS pool session would p*op themselves if I brought that to test out!
Thanks,
TD
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Post by technidiver on Nov 26, 2015 17:26:12 GMT -8
AMF Voit was the big sponsor of dive gear in this film, right?
TD
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 30, 2015 12:35:11 GMT -8
TD, as promised...   I honestly don't know why more people don't get all hot-and-bothered about The Mermaids of Tiburon, this is vintage dive gear porn! Apart from watching Jacques Cousteau episodes, this is by far the best movie for showing off scuba gear... Jaybird |
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Post by technidiver on Nov 30, 2015 14:24:07 GMT -8
Those are some nice pictures. Honestly, EVERY Vintage Dive film uses yellow and black wetsuits. Why on earth don't they make them today!!!? Those scooters look very sleek, and the 2 person sub looks similar to a UDT Frogman sub from WWII.
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 30, 2015 15:50:15 GMT -8
TD, yes, I believe you are right about those minisubs being Italian WWII lineage. Gustav Dalla Valle, who was one of the two people who bought out HW was cousin to the Cressi family, and so HW and then SP became the sole North American importers of Cressi and related products...   Oh, and here's another goody fer yas...  Yeah, I know, what a nerd  JB |
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Post by technidiver on Nov 30, 2015 16:02:54 GMT -8
What fins did Cousteau use, again? Cressi's right? My neighbour has a brother who was a hard-hat diver and would take anything that he could use or sell to feed his family. He'd salvage British WWII ships that sank in waters off of Malta. Hmmm. I'll have to ask him again if he knows anything about those cool Italian UW Scooters.
TD
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 30, 2015 19:00:13 GMT -8
What fins did Cousteau use, again? Cressi's right? My neighbour has a brother who was a hard-hat diver and would take anything that he could use or sell to feed his family. He'd salvage British WWII ships that sank in waters off of Malta. Hmmm. I'll have to ask him again if he knows anything about those cool Italian UW Scooters. TD In the beginning, the Cousteau divers used various fins, but mostly the Churchill fins (1950s). Later, when they made the movie "World Without Sun," they used the Buchart Jet Fins, before Scubapro actually came out with them. They later switched to a longer, full-foot fin that I don't know much about. John |
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not quite as unsexy as a used bandage, but, stoopid! These guys would like it...
