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Post by tomcatpc on Sept 23, 2019 17:48:43 GMT -8
Because I'm bored, thought I'd share some more things. A Cressi Pinocchio Mask (Marketed by Healthways and ScubaPro), a ScubaPro Jet Snorkel and standing in for the famous Cressi Rondine Fins (also marketed through Healthways and ScubaPro) are modern *Oceanways Professional Fins. The Mask is new made that has been retrofitted with a vintage metal lens frame. I don't have a set of Rondine fins, but these are very close... The ScubaPro Snorkel is marked "Off Set Jet Snorkel". Mark  71100036_2748234935228435_4881481931088199680_o by Mark Lodge, on Flickr Now if I could only find a Healthways or Cressi Snorkel, I could share another set... |
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Post by tomcatpc on Sept 23, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -8
As for the Cressi Pinocchio Mask...the more I dive with it, the more I love it. In the future I'd love to buy another just to have. I bought mine about two years ago on Amazon in the U.S. It seems right now they are not being offered on the U.S. Amazon at this time. I am very grateful that Cressi still makes this mask, I think it was introduced circa 1952-ish? I just wish that Cressi still made Rondine fins and a simple "J-Shaped" Snorkel.
Mark
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Sept 24, 2019 2:36:37 GMT -8
Because I'm bored, thought I'd share some more things. A Cressi Pinocchio Mask (Marketed by Healthways and ScubaPro), a ScubaPro Jet Snorkel and standing in for the famous Cressi Rondine Fins (also marketed through Healthways and ScubaPro) are modern *Oceanways Professional Fins. The Mask is new made that has been retrofitted with a vintage metal lens frame. I don't have a set of Rondine fins, but these are very close... The ScubaPro Snorkel is marked "Off Set Jet Snorkel". Mark 71100036_2748234935228435_4881481931088199680_o by Mark Lodge, on Flickr Now if I could only find a Healthways or Cressi Snorkel, I could share another set... Here are the pages from the 1953 Cressi catalogue where the Pinocchio mask is introduced:   I'm amazed how even back then the catalogue stressed the mask's selling points of low internal volume and access to the nose for ear-clearing puposes. This was at least half a decade before the development of the compensator mask with the nostril-pinching finger wells at the bottom. Here's the inventor of the Pinocchio, Luigi Ferraro, wearing the mask he designed:  and here is the Buratino, a Soviet clone of the Cressi Pinocchio:    I've just taken possession of a Cressi Pinocchio mask from Amazon.co.uk, the first I've ever bought. I didn't realise how small the mask is! DRW |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 24, 2019 10:30:37 GMT -8
I just love the image of the woman: She looks like she should be in the film, "Just Imagine" from 1930:  I know I've mentioned this before, but Pinocchio means pine-eyes: as in to have unseeing-eyes... Pinocchio was an idiot, and in the original draft of the story this is how it ended:  He got his neck stretched at a necktie party, and that was it, he was D-E-D*, dead--THE END! JB * I meant to spell it that way! |
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Post by tomcatpc on Sept 24, 2019 17:03:04 GMT -8
Yep, remember you saying the Pine-Eyes a while back. Jay, you have a Pinocchio Mask, right?
Mark
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Post by scubalawyer on Sept 24, 2019 19:20:13 GMT -8
I just love the image of the woman: Looks like Linda Belcher on Bob's Burgers!   |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Sept 25, 2019 5:20:48 GMT -8
 And there was me thinking more "Amelia Earhart" (above)! Here, anyway, are the Cressi Rondine fins pages in the same 1953 Cressi catalogue:   I too regret the absence of Cressi Rondines from current Cressi catalogues. They would have been the perfect accompaniment for a Cressi Pinocchio mask. Healthways began importing Cressi Rondines States-side around 1955 and soon had Cressi make versions fitted with Healthways' instep strap design. Perhaps that was the impetus for other companies to create their own Cressi Rondine clones. My first "serious" fins, purchased when I joined my university diving club during the 1960s, were Typhoon Cressi Rondine clones:   DRW |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 25, 2019 6:31:42 GMT -8
Yep, remember you saying the Pine-Eyes a while back. Jay, you have a Pinocchio Mask, right? Mark No, I don't, might be fun if I could find one one day though These are my only HW-masks:  Here are my HW fins:   and my latest acquisition:  JB |
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