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Post by nikeajax on Apr 4, 2014 9:40:16 GMT -8
Last night we watched "The Frogmen" from 1951, with Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews. It's a WWII film about UDT guys in the Pacific-theater. It was super swell, especially watching them get off of the speeding boats and, gulp, back on--NO THANKS! It kinda bugged me that they were using scuba-gear, whereas the Japanese soldiers were using re-breathers: are these the same as a Momsen-lung?
Jaybird
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Post by cstmwrks on Aug 22, 2014 19:45:46 GMT -8
In as much as the Momsen-lung was a rebreather it would be similar. Odd thing though, I'm not real sure of the factual history of rebreathers and Japan. Germany had them, we had them and so did the Brits and the Italians. I've seen the movie. During that underwater fight stuff i kinda thought it odd we were the ones floundering around blowing bubbles and the Japanese were not.
So I'm kinda thinking it was a hollywood thing. Good guys = bubbles bad guys = no bubbles. otherwise how would you tell who was who in a black and white flick?
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Post by cstmwrks on Aug 23, 2014 15:26:06 GMT -8
Just did a fast forward to the UW fight. Looks like the Japs had Desco model-B rebreathers. Ooh well, it's Hollywood, right?
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