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Post by nikeajax on May 11, 2018 11:19:33 GMT -8
As promised, here's another shot of my Rondines: I really liked the way the mask's lens is reflecting the "Mod" letters--VERY FUN! JB
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Post by nikeajax on May 11, 2018 12:21:30 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 16, 2019 11:17:05 GMT -8
[ Here's Cressi's most famous twin-snorkel mask, the Medusa G Due: It was marketed in the USA by US Divers towards the end of the fifties and at the beginning of the sixties: DRW DRW, last night we were watching the 1959 movie "Gidget" with Sandra Dee: Ms. Dee was wearing a Medusa-mask and Healthways gum rubber Waterdogs! The HW gear was the only redeeming thing about the film--STINKO! At one point she's screaming so that Moondoggie can save her on his surfboard: as you well know the Medusa is a full face mask but hey, everyone knows teenagers are stupid right The 1965 Sally Field TV show was very charming: until a few months ago I had zero idea how smokin' hot she was--YIKES! JB
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Nov 16, 2019 14:01:22 GMT -8
I can't tell for certain, JB, whether the picture shows a single or twin snorkel mask. If the former, the model is likely to be a Cressi Medusa G1: It stayed on the books from 1953 to 1969, so it must have sustained its popularity over two decades. DRW
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 16, 2019 16:23:35 GMT -8
Oh, sorry, it was the twin snorkel: the moment I saw it I thought of you. A couple of weeks ago we were watching Magnum P.I., second season, second episode 1981-82 and Magnum was using an aluminum USD tank, a Healthways wide-mask, a SP Mk-V with a 109 second stage and a black BC. It was cool because he was actually diving for the scenes I'm not sure if you're familiar with the show, but the actor who played Higgins, John Hillerman was from Texas: He did a pretty good British accent, and as the story goes people from the UK would ask him all the time what part of the country he was from JB
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Post by scubalawyer on Nov 16, 2019 18:00:08 GMT -8
Oh, sorry, it was the twin snorkel: the moment I saw it I thought of you. A couple of weeks ago we were watching Magnum P.I., second season, second episode 1981-82 and Magnum was using an aluminum USD tank, a Healthways wide-mask, a SP Mk-V with a 109 second stage and a black BC. It was cool because he was actually diving for the scenes I'm not sure if you're familiar with the show, but the actor who played Higgins, John Hillerman was from Texas: He did a pretty good British accent, and as the story goes people from the UK would ask him all the time what part of the country he was from JB JONATHAN QUAYLE HIGGINS, III was my favorite character on Magnum PI. "Higgins: Sometimes you amaze me, Magnum, truly. Your intuitive grasp of human nature is so...so... Magnum: Perceptive? Higgins: Pre-adolescent. — Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (John Hillerman), Magnum, P.I., Season 3: Ki' i's Don't Lie "Higgins: There’s some tea on the table, and some scones. You might try the strawberry jam too, it’s really quite good. An old comrade from the Burma campaign sent it to me—Tanky Moran. Got his name when he singlehandedly took on a Japanese tank and knocked it out. [pause] Now he’s selling jam in Devonshire. — Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (John Hillerman), Magnum, P.I., Season 3: Did You See the Sunrise? (1)
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Nov 17, 2019 1:45:46 GMT -8
Oh, sorry, it was the twin snorkel: the moment I saw it I thought of you. Thanks, JB! The fact it was the twin snorkel makes better historical sense, because Healthways only imported two Cressi snorkel-masks, the Medusa G2 twin-snorkel full-face and the single-snorkel Cressi Ostrica (below), which covered just the eyes and the nose. Incidentally, the Cressi Medusa G2 snorkel-mask was probably the snorkel-mask used in the 1958 British thriller movie "The Snorkel", trailer below: A couple of weeks ago we were watching Magnum P.I., second season, second episode 1981-82 and Magnum was using an aluminum USD tank, a Healthways wide-mask, a SP Mk-V with a 109 second stage and a black BC. It was cool because he was actually diving for the scenes I'm not sure if you're familiar with the show, but the actor who played Higgins, John Hillerman was from Texas: He did a pretty good British accent, and as the story goes people from the UK would ask him all the time what part of the country he was from JB I am indeed familiar with Higgins from "Magnum PI", which I remember watching years ago. John Hillerman did have a completely credible English accent, which deceived most British viewers. I too was taken in. Part of his success was his ability to underplay the role of a well-spoken Englishman, which is exactly the way it should be done. It's amazing that he was a Texan, because we Brits always associate people from the Lone Star state with the likes of John Wayne and we here in the UK expect to see and hear a cowboy with a drawl when we meet a Texan. The least successful attempt by an American to put on a British accent must be a certain American actor's Cockney speech in "Mary Poppins": But at least he tried and he has apologised for his performance many times since. His eccentric comic dancing certainly made up for his vain efforts to sound like a chimney sweep from the East End of London! DRW
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Post by tomcatpc on Nov 17, 2019 5:39:48 GMT -8
OH My God!, Magnum!!! Sorry just had to! Mark
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 17, 2019 8:27:39 GMT -8
The least successful attempt by an American to put on a British accent must be a certain American actor's Cockney speech in "Mary Poppins" DRW YIKES! The really dumb part is so many Americans think that Cockney is the only British accent... In the mid-1980's I worked at a cafe and every so often I'd get some a-hole coming in, it was worse when two people did it, but they'd try to fool me with an even worse accent than Dick Van happy girl's. I'll play with an accent but I never thought I was ever fooling anyone. Again, I was working at another cafe and I was playing with a German accent, and a British guy came in and he got bent out of shape and told me, "Actually, I'm British..." I think at which point I jumped into a Scot's accent with something like, "Aye, what'll ya be havin' laddy?" I get bored sometimes and just love to play. Once in college a friend and I were playing with a very generic Italian accent, just bein' stoopud: and a guy who just happened to be standing around insisted that it was our real accent: even after we broke into our native California accent's... Live is too short not to be weird sometimes JB There's a really dreadful early Dr. Who episode where he goes back to the Old West where some BBC actors are attempting to do a Southern Drawl--SNORT! Oh, and let's not forget Thunderbirds: Evidently they did American accent because they thought the kids in the U.S. wouldn't understand a British accent...
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Nov 17, 2019 23:57:49 GMT -8
My brother is now a naturalised US citizen, having lived and worked for decades in the American Upper Midwest. I used to attempt an American accent with him when I told him about something funny I'd heard on American TV and he quickly told me how execrable my impersonations of US personalities were. I would counter by telling him how much his own pronunciation of certain words had changed since he'd left the UK. He wasn't pleased and tried to explain the phenomenon away by saying that he deliberately pronounced things differently to be understood by others in his adopted American city.
We Limeys and Yanks are indeed divided by a common language as George Bernard Shaw once said.
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 18, 2019 8:53:56 GMT -8
DRW, I know that people in the UK and the Commonwealth countries all call us Yanks, but the real Yankee is WASP, white Anglo Saxon Protestant, and comes from the New England-states. The further away you get from the area, it becomes a point of contention, someone from say Oklahoma may give you a very cold stare, whereas a Californian will chuckle and insult you in a very colorful phrase in Spanish, a bit like telling an Irishman from the Republic that he's English Again, thanks for trying to keep the bubbles flowing on this very dead forum! JB
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 18, 2019 10:08:03 GMT -8
Jaybird,
I have a Healthways mask I used a few days ago in the pool. It's a very nice and comfortable mask, of black neoprene. I'll get a photo of it a bit later today.
John
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 18, 2019 14:15:49 GMT -8
Here is my Healthways ScubaView dive mask. I had it in the pool last week, and it is a very comfortable mask. It is also very dry, even during a flip turn as I swim laps (I don't like goggles in the pool). I had a snorkel attached on the left side of the head strap. IMG_1342 by John Ratliff, on Flickr The purge still works very well, but only when level. When I look down and use the purge, air comes out the skirt rather than the purge valve. But anywhere close to horizontal and it works well. The reason is the difference in pressure with the nose straight down verses looking ahead. John
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