Sat Nov 14, 2015 4:56 pm
Came across this web page of a recent donation to the Dumas Museum by Jean-Pierre Durand. Shows copies of home built equipment and blue prints for a copy of Mistral. The google translation of the web page from French to English is readable.
https://museedumas.wordpress.com/histoi ... e-plongee/
I visited the Dumas Museum several years ago and it is worth a visit. A few miles away I swam at Cousteau's first dive site in Bandol. I visited the former home of the GERS in Toulon. No tourist crowds at the height of summer. Several days of dive history and French food even my wife liked.
“A skin diver is a fellow who pulls on a pair of fancy swimming trunks, some rubber fins, a diving mask and canvas gloves, then fills his lungs with air and noses down into the ocean looking for two fisted trouble.”
