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Talking About Dive Watches...
I know that many of us have a love for diving and dive watches, Abel recently showed his Citizen dive watch and Bill has a love of Doxas. It got me thinking about some great memories of my dives around the world and the friends that I have dived with. You certainly meet some interesting people along the way !
If you can share any photos and experiences of your diving it would be great to see them.
Great post dear Captain!! I will be delighted to follow ...
... this thread!
Absolutely agree with you that diving brings the chance to know beautiful places and meeting incredible people.
I have been fascinated by sea and sea exploration since I was a 10 years old lad.
I was a fan of Jacques Cousteau since viewing his film Silent World and reading the book of same title in the late 50’s well before he became famous for his TV shows and trips around the World.
He and Hans Hass were my heroes and Lloyd Bridges of Sea Hunt fame my favorite star.
I wish to share a B&W picture of me during my first scuba classes around 1964 daydreaming with those heroes I mentioned.
And another color shot during a shark dive in Bahamas me at center and my son and daughter at my sides. They are also certified and accomplished divers and I shared with them many memorable dives and places.
Look forward to many fascinating posts and would love to know more about your diving experience!
Cheers! Abel
Thanks a lot my friend!! That’s a lot of years ago!...
... I was so young then...
A great passion for scuba diving !
All the best! Abel
A great passion for scuba diving !
All the best! Abel
ThIs image af of you from 1964 is world class, Abel!
Super cool and definitely a jung aspiring Jacques Cousteau 
Thanks a lot dear Christian!! Cousteau was a great...
... inspiration certainly!
I could finally meet him diring a visit in my Country.
He intrduced millions of people in this fabulous UW world!
Cheers! Abel
I could finally meet him diring a visit in my Country.
He intrduced millions of people in this fabulous UW world!
Cheers! Abel
Ha ha ha!! Eso es lo que yo hago!!! Ha ha ha! La mejor solucion!! [nt]
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Hello dear Abel...
Thank you for joining me by posting your diving memories and two great photos. My diving hero was Jaques Cousteau and his adventures aboard the Calypso. I was also fascinated by the Frogmen and the story of Buster Crabb of the Royal Navy.However the ultimate for me was Thunderball staring Sean Connery. All of this made me want to snorkel and eventually dive from the earliest opportunity.
Ah! Yes! He inspired many people for sure...
Of course I was interested in B Crabb incident too!
And of course Thunderball was one of my favorite Bond films.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Jordan Klein in January 1966 in his dive shop in Miami. The film was shot in 1965.
Mr. Klein made many props for the film including UW camera cases and the sled to steal the H bomb in the film, special scooters of Mr Largo gang, etc.
I also met the editor of the famous and now defunct Skin Diver Magazine.
Your post brought many memories.
By the way: great shot to open thread! It depicts old dive gear from before the appearance of single hose regulators.
I see double hose rigs there which was the equipment I lesrned to dive with.
Single hose era begun in the mid 1960’s I guess.
Did you took this shot?
Very nice image!!
My pleasure to share my shots and memories!
All the best my friend!!
Abel
And of course Thunderball was one of my favorite Bond films.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Jordan Klein in January 1966 in his dive shop in Miami. The film was shot in 1965.
Mr. Klein made many props for the film including UW camera cases and the sled to steal the H bomb in the film, special scooters of Mr Largo gang, etc.
I also met the editor of the famous and now defunct Skin Diver Magazine.
I had the opportunity to dive in the site were some UW Scenes were filmed: the Vulcan and a little wreck off Nassau. Nothing remains nowadays!
Your post brought many memories.
By the way: great shot to open thread! It depicts old dive gear from before the appearance of single hose regulators.
I see double hose rigs there which was the equipment I lesrned to dive with.
Single hose era begun in the mid 1960’s I guess.
Did you took this shot?
Very nice image!!
My pleasure to share my shots and memories!
All the best my friend!!
Abel
Skin Diver Magazine...
Sadly stopped publishing in 2002. The covers were always superb and seeing them takes you back in time.
I’m sad to hear that the Vulcan has disappeared as it was on my “Dive Bucket List” ...LOL. I have had the pleasure of being onboard a Vulcan, but not underwater !
I didn’t take the dive photo but it is one from my collection of vintage photos.
Yes indeed it was a shame that wonderful magazine closed
In 2002.
It was a classic and it had a big influence in the development and spreading of scuba diving as a sport.
One of its two founders was Jim Auxier who was the editor I met in 1966 as well as two charming contributors : Ed and Jean Dowd.
I still keep several dozens magazines from the mid 1960’s through 1980’s which I used to make them bound with hardcovers.
The Vulcan was a mock up made with steel frame and wood and was destroyed in few years by currents and storms.
The wreck was an old metal schooner with a boiler and they filmed some shots around its remains.
It also dissapeared through years of storms and currents.
I liked the idea of a dive bucket list!!
To dive in the Read Sea is something which remains in my list! Lol!
And to fly in a Vulcan too! Lol!
Nice vintage shot you shared here!!
I well remember that SDM cover!! I have the issue in my bound books!
All the best! Abel
Great shots Kafvin!! And that whale shark!! Wow! What an experience!!
I had the chance to dive with right whale in the south of my Country.
An exhilarating experience indeed!
Cheers! Abel
An exhilarating experience indeed!
Cheers! Abel
Hello dear Captain! Sorry for my delay in answering your call. Though I started diving in the late sixties, my fondest memories come from my last years of diving ...
... in company of my son and daughter who are also accomplished certified divers. Sharing with them my passion for the UW world is one of my greatest personal satisfactions in my life.
My daugther (who was very young then) in special was very very dissapointed because she was a fan of sharks. She have read lots of books about them and wished to view them "in person"!
I took my daughter hand to stop her, and I saw she was smiling behind her mask and regulator. She made me a hand sign meaning: "are you afraid Dad?".
Hope you´ll enjoy this story and forgive the long writting!
Cheers! Abel
One story relates to an unforgettable seven day stay at Turks and Caicos, Bahamas making up to five wonderful dives daily including a night dive.
At the end of the week all other divers in the many groups there have had encounters with sharks... except for the three of us. And that was our last day in the island!
At the end of our last dive we were returning to the boat without any shark sight and we were diving along a ledge of an steep U/W hill which guided us back.
Suddenly we viewed two big hammer sharks cutting our path just a few meters in fron of us. The sight was exhilarating. My daughter had been told by one instructor that sharks were attracted by metalic sounds and started clicking with her ring against her second stage (metalic then)! The sharks quickly responded raising their heads toward us as if trying to locate the source of sound.
She was thrilled and delighted!
I was not afraid at all but concerned about what to do if those two sharks became aggresive, they were so near us! I made my two children stay with their backs to the coral covered hill behind me and stay motionless and I felt relieved when the sharks made a few gentle movements to their tails and went away.
We returned our trip back to the boat and by chance I viewed downward the ledge. And I saw a most awesome scene: about 30/40 meters bellow the ledge we were following dozens and dozens of hammer sharks were marching like a long flowing giant snake following the same direction.
That was a most marvellous and unique sight which we were later told it is a seasonal migration of a school of hammer heads sharks from one point of the islands to another place in the sea.
As you may understand this was for us the crown of a superb diving week in a most charming place and a dive full of excitiment and thrill.
We finally could have our shark encounter!!
Cheers! Abel
That’s a great experience Abel...
Thank you for sharing it us.
Hammerhead sharks are incredible and can be very dangerous. I find sharks impressive. On a night dive I found a Nurse shark sleeping in a large cave !
Hammerhead sharks are incredible and can be very dangerous. I find sharks impressive. On a night dive I found a Nurse shark sleeping in a large cave !
My big pleasure to share it dear Captain! Yes, I have seen nurse sharks sleeping at night in caves or under coral ledges. Nurse sharks are jharmless as you know but they make for...
... an impresive view underwater and they are wonderful creatures and a delight to view them swimming near the bottoms.
Night dives are specially thrilling experiences. As an instructor once told me, it is some kind of "close up diving" with our view reduced to the scope of our flashlights.
Lots of colors and creatures take a new dimension and it is curious you discover a completely different scenary at night in a place you have dived before in daylight.
Nice to talk this with you my friend! Abel.
Night dives are specially thrilling experiences. As an instructor once told me, it is some kind of "close up diving" with our view reduced to the scope of our flashlights.
Lots of colors and creatures take a new dimension and it is curious you discover a completely different scenary at night in a place you have dived before in daylight.
Nice to talk this with you my friend! Abel.