Check this vintage ad out...

[socaljohn]

Apparently many of the safety skills included were not so much in response to actual accidents but rather to what, in their imagination, might happen on a dive.


Regarding "what might happen on a dive"
That is what we would do today, typical of risk analysis is FMEA Failure Mode Effects Analysis which does exactly that, tries ot imagine what could go wrong then mitigate the threat, in this case with training.

 

[Bigbella]

Yeah, it's The Lord of the Flies in neoprene -- "Let's kill Piggy!" . . .

Basically, the all-too frightening ad celebrates Summer vacation:

"Below, with Cressi!

"Immersion!

"Guys, the time has come!

"Hurray for vacation! Long live the sea . . . the beach . . . the Sun!

"Viva Cressisub! We are an army ready to dive -- an army of specialized 'dive-vacationers' . . ."

Yikes . . .

 

[lowwall]

I don't know how many people saw
@mac64 's pic in the latest endless snorkel thread, but this should have been a Marlboro advert.

 

[happy-diver]

Real diving

Magnificent!

We've got kangaroos instead of dogs, a pouch for the keys

 

[Couv]

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Yeah, it's The Lord of the Flies in neoprene -- "Let's kill Piggy!" . . .

Basically, the all-too frightening ad celebrates Summer vacation:

"Below, with Cressi!

"Immersion!

"Guys, the time has come!

"Hurray for vacation! Long live the sea . . . the beach . . . the Sun!

"Viva Cressisub! We are an army ready to dive -- an army of specialized 'dive-vacationers' . . ."

Yikes . . .

It's a good thing no one tried to give those kids a Nerf Gun! Why their parents just would not have it.

 

[Deepsea5]

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Yeah, it's The Lord of the Flies in neoprene -- "Let's kill Piggy!" . . .

Basically, the all-too frightening ad celebrates Summer vacation:

"Below, with Cressi!

"Immersion!

"Guys, the time has come!

"Hurray for vacation! Long live the sea . . . the beach . . . the Sun!

"Viva Cressisub! We are an army ready to dive -- an army of specialized 'dive-vacationers' . . ."

Yikes . . .

What could possibly go wrong??!! LOL

I suspect a spear gun fight would be much worse than a BB gun fight...

 

[Bigbella]

"For this young man of action and acquisition," just for the articles, sir . . .

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

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"For this young man of action and acquisition," just for the articles, sir . . .

So awesome...

 

[happy-diver]

Nothing like a good smoke after diving. Lol

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Hey Open Ocean diver
why have you copied my picture whilst the ink was still wet

It's my original magazine ad that I framed, in a frame I built
and it lives on my wall in one of my rooms in my house and
you copied it from my post in this thread without attribution.

Pictures, Ads, etc. that are free to print

Just like that, without a thought, posted only 4 days earlier.





Ahhhhh come have a look at some of my other nice things

Magnificent!

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

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