Well if Hans Hass turned up without a card, I would 1.) not let him dive, 2.) make him pay a beer fine for wearing his mask on the forehead
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"Well if Hans Hass turned up without a card, I would 1.) not let him dive, 2.) make him pay a beer fine for wearing his mask on the forehead"
He was your countryman, although he resided in Lichtenstein for many years prior to his passing in 2013 at age 94. He was one of the all time greats of modern self contained diving. You should honor him and treat him with great respect for his many pioneering efforts.
You may want to re read the following post:
I will not question your statement but I will question your source of the statement.
Hans Hass was much revered by the early divers in Europe as well as the US as a
true pioneer of the underwater world. He published his first book "Dive to adventure" in 1939 and a year later produced his first film "Stalking Underwater' and his monumental and very exciting "Under the red sea" in the mid 1940s.
I always appreciated Dr. Hass'e statement when asked about his rival Cousteau "For Cousteau there existed only Cousteau. He never acknowledges others or corrected the impression that he wasn't the first in diving or in underwater photography"
Dr. Hass accomplished every thing at least 10 or more years before JYC and most concede ten times better
According to all reports and Dr. Michael Jung's biographical book "HANS HASS, ein leben lang auf expedion; ein porprat" Dr. Hass gave up diving in 1961 to pursue his interest in behavioral science and also publish a number of books.
At the time of his departure from active diving in 1961 LA Co and a struggling NAUI were the only major US certifying agencies. So it is doubtful if he was ever required to be certified, in the US or Europe.
Dr. Hass passed away in 2013, he was 94. He was survived by his wife Lotte and son Hans
However, the late great pioneer diver/author Vane Ivanovic did experience a bump in the road.
For your information;
The spear fishing/diving books published in the US and great Britain by the late great Ivan S. Ivanovic aka Vane Ivanovic are as follows;
>Sub-marine spearfishing by I.S Ivanovic, Nicolas Kaye, London, 1950;
>Spearfishing (same book) A.S. Barnes, NYC, 1951 (These two books are Very Rare, therefore very expensive to purchase IF they can be located)
Mr. Ivanovic then changed his name to "Vane Ivanovic"
>Modern Spearfishing, was published by A.S. Barnes, NYC, 1955:
>Modern Spear fishing, was his last and totally revised book. It was published by two companies;
Kaye-Ward, London, 1974
Henry Regnery &Co, NYC 1975.
LX; Memories of a Jugoslav was the last book authored by Vane Ivanovic, which was published in the US in 1977 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ). A 435 page autobiographical account of an amazing life of adventure which included at least three chapters related to diving; Spearfishing; page 329, Sharks; page 333, British Virgins Islands; page 349.
Vane who was born in Yugoslavia in 1913 passed to the big reef in the sky in 1998 in his adapted country of England.
Interesting side bar, Reg Valentine, the British diving author certified Vane as a diver several years before his death - seems he didn't have a "C" card and rules are rules in jolly ole England especially for a fuzzy faced newly minted English PADI type.
SDM
