Category: Videos

Finnish diving expedition in Tenerife 1958-1959

As we probably remember, the first Finnish diving expedition, organized by Ralf Tötterström, headed to Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1958-1959. The 16mm film strip filmed on the trip has been preserved. It has now been digitized by videotaping the image projected by a film projector. This method does not produce anywhere near the …

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Finnish combat divers 1970

Published with permission. Cine films“Rynnäkkösukeltajat 1970” (combat divers 1970)Filming: Mauri KallioProduction: DIVETECH

The silent world (1956)

A film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle from 1956. Watch the film down on this page. This film (The silent world, Amazon.co.uk) portrays the underwater adventures of the divers of Calypso, the ship owned by Cousteau. The impressive opening scene portrays divers wearing aqua-lungs (Cousteau-Gagnan regulators and three cylinders of compressed air) and carrying …

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