Basic gear from mid-twentieth-century Italy: Other manufacturers

[dmaziuk]

Maybe @Angelo Farina can answer this. What purpose do those mini fins serve? I was a competitive swimmer and we never used them. Form is vital in competitive swimming and you don't use the same kick with fins as you would without so I would think it's counterproductive to spend pool time using them. You certainly don't need extra accessories for movement specific muscle strengthening, the enormous increase in drag as speed increases means sprint intervals serve that purpose quite well.

You should try them sometime. The difference is the same as doing jumping jacks vs doing jumping jacks with dumbbells in your hands. And yes, the fins you use are very very small so they don't mess up your form:

 

[lowwall]

You should try them sometime. The difference is the same as doing jumping jacks vs doing jumping jacks with dumbbells in your hands. And yes, the fins you use are very very small so they don't mess up your form:

I'm good

 

[WeRtheOcean]

BTW, it's probably obvious, but Pomarańczowe/Niebieski means Orange/Blue and Czerwone/Niebieski means Red/Blue.

Pomaranczowe reinded me of a pomeranian. I suppose that some of them do have kind of orange fur.

 

[lowwall]

Pomaranczowe reinded me of a pomeranian. I suppose that some of them do have kind of orange fur.

It's a nice thought, but the Polish word for Pomerania is Pomorze, which simple means "along the sea". Pomarańczowy derives from the Italian pomo arancia meaning "orange fruit or apple". The fruit apparently preceded the color by a couple of centuries. Before then it was called "dark yellow" or "reddish yellow".

Source for the derivation of pomarańczowy is: Pomarańcza i pomarańczowy - Poradnia językowa PWN (this should open in Google Translate).

Many Polish food words come from Italian or French. Poles like to say that the salad was introduced to Poland by their Italian-born 16th-century Queen Bona Sforza. Maybe she brought some oranges along as well.

Queen Bona is worth a visit, if not a multi-season series on Netflix:

Bona Sforza - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Queen who defied the Holy Roman Emperor

A University of Melbourne expert says Italian-born princess, Queen Bona, helps us understand how Renaissance women acquired, maintained and negotiated power.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

 

[David Wilson]

Many thanks for the likes, jale, Angelo and lowwall. And for the postings, Iowwall, Angelo, dmaziuk and WeRtheOcean.

Today I start a brand new thread entitled "Basic gear from mid-twentieth-century Spain: Nemrod".

 

[dimges]

Many thanks, guys, for the likes and the contributions. Together we are excavating the history of diving on this side of the Arlantic, where the development of underwater exploration appears to have been less researched than its counterpart States-side. I suspect that the relative neglect is largely down to what people call the "language barrier", but in these days of Google Translate there are fewer excuses to remain in one's comfort zone and never stray beyond the English-speaking Web.

Back to GSD, and when I announced that I would be concentrating today on that Italian diving equipment manufacturer's Smeralda mask, perhaps you might have told yourselves "it's like déjà vu all over again", to quote the immortal words of the late great American professional baseball catcher Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra. The Tigullio Smeralda diving mask had made its début in 1963:

Here is the GSD diving mask with the same name (Smeralda= Emerald), No. 2 in the collage of gear below:

Italian: "2. Smeralda: maschera professionale in 3 formati. Tempered Glass e Neoprene Rubber".
Rough translation: "2. Smeralda: professional mask in 3 fittings. Tempered Glass and Neoprene Rubber".

There is a close resemblance between the Tigullio and GSD models, which may be attributed to the fact that the "G" in "GSD" stands for "Gatti", who had been responsible for the Tigullio diving mask patent:

in the 70s I bought a GSD SAMOA mask made of natural rubber, but it self-vulcanized in one part because I left it in the apartment in a high place in the 80s, and it was very hot when I was away. In 1989 I bought a silicone Smeralda in Frankfurt and I still use it.
What I can't find are short GIADA hole diving fins, I had some BOND 008 clone but they were great, short light and stiff in one direction. Last year I bought Chinese short hydrodynamic fins, but they are open heel and have no tension, especially the numbers are 39-42, and not 38-40 like I used. I don't know why they don't renew the production of the old models of short fins, I think it will be a boom. Well, on e-bau, after 40 years, short Tigulio Manta fins were selling almost well, and I also had those...