To start it off, one of the most famous underwater camera housings ever made was the Hans Hass Rollei marine housing, for the Rolleiflex camera. The heavy duty aluminum casting was built to last a lifetime.
How do you get air in a tank? Right, with a compressor! Here's a Cornelius High Pressure SCUBA Compressor from the mid 1950's.
Churchill swim fins and Sea-View mask 1950. Churchill fins were one of the first fins available in the United States and were used by the U.S. Navy in the 1940's and 1950's. They were later sold by Voit.
During the recent exploratory wreck dive trip in Pattaya, Neil at Seafari in Pattaya helped out with the logistics but what was very interesting to me were some very old style pieces of dive equipment. One of them is this cone shapes mask, used to look underwater from the surface.
These two masks, both with purge valves were also on display. Neil said that there was more stuff upstairs and I definitely need to go back and have a look and take some more pix!Labels: Diving History, Pattaya, Scuba Equipment and Tools, Vintage scuba