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Post by SeaRat on Feb 11, 2014 13:14:55 GMT -8
If I got it correctly, this is a You Tube video from the late 1950s and early 1960s of diving, spearfishing and water skiing on Puget Sound.
Enjoy,
John
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Post by nikeajax on Feb 19, 2014 18:20:54 GMT -8
John, at about 59: secs in there's a ferry boat. I was hoping it was this when I went back:  but I think it's this:  It has a tall funnel in the middle! Jaybird |
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Post by sidm on Apr 18, 2014 16:32:11 GMT -8
What cool old film! At 2:53 the divers are standing in front of a boat house, although the first letter is obscured, it could be M for Maury's. There is a Maury Island up in the Tacoma area, but I don't know if there was a boat house like this. At 5:52 is a boy in one of the yellow and black, one piece White Stag wetsuits. More show up later. My instructor had one of these suits and this could place the films as early as 1960 or '61. At 8:15, the man with KEFFLER on the back of his suit would be Gary Keffler, an early Seattle diver, spearfisherman and dive shop owner. That makes it possible that one of the kids in the film may be Dan Keffler of Underwater Sports of Seattle. Around 8 minutes the divers are involved in an octopus wrestling contest, and at 8:15 you see a guy with the King County Sheriff dive patch on his back. The balding guy at 8:39 and 8:41 looks a lot like Tom Amerman, owner of the first dive shop in Oregon - opened in 1950 in Portland. Tom taught my instructor, larry Blum, to dive, so I am a second generation Amerman diver.
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Post by SeaRat on Apr 19, 2014 12:17:36 GMT -8
Sid, toward the end of this film is a spearfishing contest, and a sign held up to the camera gives the place (I'll have to go back and look) and the date, April 9, 1961.
John
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Post by sea.explorer on Apr 20, 2014 7:09:00 GMT -8
The sign is for a treasure hunt held at Owen Beach, Point Defiance Park Tacoma, WA. -Ryan
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Post by SeaRat on Apr 20, 2014 17:08:20 GMT -8
It does say "Treasure Hunt," but just previous to that, at around 8:45 there is a segment where there are trophies handed out, and prior to that octopus wrestling. I have a similar trophy from our Thetis Island expedition (if you can call an extended dive trip that) when I was in high school, that is dated August, 1962 for first place, and that was for the largest fish shot. That's probably why I thought it was for a spearfishing contest. Those were some really fun times. John Attachment Deleted  |
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