How many people love Vintage Equipment Diving ?

[trapezus]

 

[adairrj]

Wow....very nice pictures!!!!

 

[trapezus]

Plongée ancienne à Port-Issol par le musée Dumas - YouTube


Osman Yasar Kulac

 

[trapezus]

Hungary Vintage Diving in swimming pool ,Budapest
Regulator: Baracuda
mask : Match
Fins : Voit
Wetsuit: Aquarius sharkskin
Diver: Adrienn


Vintage diving 2014 - YouTube

 

[David Wilson]

Hungary Vintage Diving in swimming pool

Vintage diving 2014 - YouTube

Thanks for posting, Trapezus, a great little video presenting an interesting mixture of nationalities: A Hungarian diver with a German regulator (Barrakuda), a French mask (Match) and American fins (Voit), if the kit list at the end is to be believed.

Over the vintage diving era, Hungarians had plenty of basic gear at their disposal, including the following fins:
BalatonNajade

Tihany Martelon Triden

The Balaton was made in Hungary, while the Tihany and the Triden were imported and rebranded from the GDR (Guwelin of Berlin) and the UK (Britmarine of Sandwich) respectively. The Najade, which also originally came from East Germany, is now made in Hungary and is now the only full-foot rubber fin approved for international finswimming championships.

Can you tell us anything about the history of diving equipment manufacturers in Turkey, Trapezus? I know that Adalılar Kauçuk of Istanbul now uses Mares' original moulds to reintroduce the Italian company's Sea King and Concorde fins to a new generation of snorkellers and freedivers. What, for example, do you know about the Turkish diving equipment manufacturer Yilmaz, which used to make its own gear, such as the fins below:

 

[trapezus]

David Wilson , thank you for your interest. Here are some Turkish companies' products :

YILMAZ Balikadam Sanayii



ADALILAR KAUCUK VE PLASTIK URUNLERI :
Adalilar made Concorde and Jet-Fin finns..



and compressor firms:

Cemdag Makina Kompresör Revizyon, Kompresör Servis ve Kompresör Sat?? Merkezi - Arcom Kompresör

ALKIN KOMPRESSÖR -- Ürünler

 

[John C. Ratliff]

Thanks for posting, Trapezus, a great little video presenting an interesting mixture of nationalities: A Hungarian diver with a German regulator (Barrakuda), a French mask (Match) and American fins (Voit), if the kit list at the end is to be believed.

Over the vintage diving era, Hungarians had plenty of basic gear at their disposal, including the following fins:
View attachment 195040BalatonView attachment 195041Najade

View attachment 195042Tihany View attachment 195043Martelon Triden

The Balaton was made in Hungary, while the Tihany and the Triden were imported and rebranded from the GDR (Guwelin of Berlin) and the UK (Britmarine of Sandwich) respectively. The Najade, which also originally came from East Germany, is now made in Hungary and is now the only full-foot rubber fin approved for international finswimming championships.

Can you tell us anything about the history of diving equipment manufacturers in Turkey, Trapezus? I know that Adalılar Kauçuk of Istanbul now uses Mares' original moulds to reintroduce the Italian company's Sea King and Concorde fins to a new generation of snorkellers and freedivers. What, for example, do you know about the Turkish diving equipment manufacturer Yilmaz, which used to make its own gear, such as the fins below:
View attachment 195044

The Balaton reminds me of one of the original Sportsways fins, which I got as a kid for my birthday. I didn't like them, and traded them for original Duck Feet, which I really liked and used for a long time.

SeaRat

 

[drbill]

Dove vintage gear when it was new. I'll take my current stuff (well, much of it is 20-30 years old but I don't consider it vintage!). For those who enjoy diving the really old stuff, more power to ya!

 

[ElChe]

Great to see you shared this video! I confess I shot it a few days ago. The diver didn't had any experience with those stuff before, she wasn't sure how will she liked them. She had mixed experiences: the mask was quite uncomfortable for her, the small fins (I think this Voit is not the American Voit, I'll make some photos of it) was OK, the Barakuda regulator (I think it's originally a Spanish Nemrod marketed as Barakuda) worked fine after she was used to it, and she loved the sharkskin wetsuit, she said it was better than her modern one. She asked me to bring it to the next hot water trip. Diving without a BCD wasn't a problem at all, as a skilled diver she dived easily after proper weighting. In the summer we plan to do some open water dives as well, I have some more old equipment.

I wrote a blog entry about the dive, you can see some photos there:
Merülés a retróba - Big Blue Búvár Blog

(I know it's in Hungarian, sorry. )

By the way, there weren't real diving equipment factories, so here it was quite typical to have Italian suits, French regulators, etc.

 

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