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.
![Image](http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/eskimo3883/burnon-valette-1.jpg)
“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.”