PADI Festival Brazil 2012 x CG-45 Collection

[adairrj]

PADI Festival 2012 - The biggest fair of diving in latin america...and the CG-45 Collection was there showing some vintage double hose regulators and some old scuba gears !!!!


Pether Hughes...

Stuart Cove...

Jean Michel Cousteu and the CG-45 SARL...

This is an invitation to the premiere of The Silent World autographed by your father in 1956....a treasure of my collection!!!

[Bryan]

Very nice ! Do you know how many attended the event? Thanks for sharing with everyone there. Hopefully we get a lot of new double hose divers.

[SDHR2010]

Really nice Adair, I'm sure that was a great moment !

[Drado]

REPRESENT!

[21]

FANTASTIC!

Your collection is now in my bucket when I visit to BRAZIL..

I was made an honorary world Brazilian about 10 years ago...I was minding my business when a yellow and green Congo line came down the middle of the main street in Barcelona Spain...I was standing on the curb when several Brazilians grabbed me and "forced me" to join the ever increasing Congo line. I feably protested "I am American!" One Brazilian who became my mentor and guide shouted back "You are an Honorary Brazilian Now!" Who am I to protest such an honor? So away we danced--block after block in the middle of Barcelona traffic.

Soon the policia arrived - not to stop the dance but to block off streets and divert traffic. As my mentor said "When Brazil wins a soccer match they celebrate as only a Brazilian can celebrate and the world celebrates with us...and they do both very well.

Now I have discovered that "When a Brazilian collects SCUBA he does it as only a Brazilian can--very well!"

Congrats on your world class display!

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I have several questions???
re Rollei --Never knew of a Rollei tri-pod -- Common?
Do you have the book "Photographs Underwater" by Kendal? He Ids the Rollei models and by serial numbers==He passed away 30 years ago, there is another story there..

Re Bruno Germany- the Brazilian world spear fishing champion? After he won he dropped out of competition and there has been little or no contact.

sdm

[adairrj]

Thanks all!!!

Bryan, approximately 3500 people attended the event and the most visited the small booth of the CG-45 Collection to enjoy and wonder about the equipments on display!!!! A lot of questions about double hose regulators.

Dear Mr. Sam,
I am doubly honored by your words! First, to receive such high praise from a person like you and also to receive the compliments of an Honorary Brazilian!!
I’m really speechless by your compliments to my collection…thank you so much!!!
When you come to Brazil, I will be pleased to show each piece of my collection.
Soon, I would like to attend the events you organize in your country!

About your questions:
1. I got the Rollei tri-pod from Franz Rothbrust – HDS.de. He made them is his designer working shop. I don't have the Kendal's book!!!

2. About Bruno Hermanny:
Some informations - Born on December 26, 1932, in Sao Paulo, Bruno Otero Hermanny had his first contact with a pool in the old Germania Club, Clube Pinheiros current. With the change of the family to Rio de Janeiro, when he was six years, came to know the sea, which never went away. It was created in Ipanema and devoted himself mainly to water sports.



Influenced by the athlete José Candido Pimentel Duarte, a family friend, began to frequent the Guanabara Club, which started in swimming and yachting. On the beach practicing the "Jacaré," the embryo of surfing but without surfboard, and fishing with "slingshot", small harpoons rustic, with his partner Luiz Correa de Araujo.
Taken to Fluminense Football Club for a swim test, there remained some years training and competing in speed events, having integrated champion teams - State level, National and South American (1954), in the company, among others, John Goncalves, Aran Boghossian and Tetsujo Okamoto. While in military service, was summoned to Modern Pentathlon competitions, and participated in two World Championships, especially in swimming events and horse riding.



In the Spearfishing was, however, that has achieved more success, winning state championships, national, and twice World Championship, in 1960 in Italy and 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. For his achievements representing the Yacht Club of Rio de Janeiro, received the title of Honorary Membership of that club.
Bruno died in Rio de Janeiro, the February 20, 1992, and left four children, Bruno, Eric and Bianca, with Lucia Ferreira Guimarães, and Gabriela, with Thereza Cristina Cardoso Hermanny.
http://blogoterohermanny.blogspot.com.b ... manny.html

[1969ivan1]

Wow! Very impressive display. Maybe VDH will have a booth there some day!