|
Post by scubadiverbob on Jan 30, 2007 0:04:23 GMT -8
Hi, A friend of mine in bermuda sen this to me ... interesting ... www.deeperblue.net/Thought others might enjoy it.
|
|
|
Post by Glenn "Whitebear" Kennedy on Jan 30, 2007 7:52:40 GMT -8
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to drill into their free diving and spear fishing a little more Glenn
|
|
|
Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Feb 3, 2007 3:26:25 GMT -8
Yes, I came across this site with its constituent forums several weeks ago. Another swimming activity, finswimming, is represented here too. I'm not really interested in finswimming with monofins per se, but competitive finswimmers also use "bifins" which can resemble traditional swim fins in form and material, an artefact whose history I'm always interested in researching. Finswimming has strong roots in Eastern Europe. Armed with a link or two from the Deeperblue forums and using my foreign language skills I managed to locate several Russian and Ukrainian sources of newly-manufactured classic rubber fins and oval masks: Ukraine-made fins www.kievguma.com.ua/lasty.htmUkraine-made oval masks in black, blue and yellow www.kievguma.com.ua/masky.htmRussia-made full-foot fins and blue oval mask (try links 2-8 in the centre column) www.tiger-gun.ru/goods/div53/Russia-made coloured dive masks www.spine.ru/work_mask.htmRussia-made full-foot fins and oval mask www.yrt.ru/english/sport/sport_r.shtmlIf you click on the "Diving Suits" link on the left of the above English-language page, you'll find some interesting drysuits whose classic simplicity contrasts with the arguably overstyled and overengineered modern suits common among Western divers. Hope the above is of some interest. And in case anybody is wondering, I did not find any distributors of this gear in Europe or North America, so unless any of you know different, we will probably have to stick to online window-shopping. I know many (most?) members of this forum focus on regulators, which as a lifelong snorkeller holds less of an interest for me. I did, however, in deference to you all, look among the Russian and Ukrainian websites I visited for double-hose regulators, but came up empty-handed apart from a site or two offering the Aqualung Mistral model. David
|
|