Search and recovery diving, cave diving and historical diving as a hobby.
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Aug 29 2022
Finnish combat divers 1970
Published with permission. Cine films“Rynnäkkösukeltajat 1970” (combat divers 1970)Filming: Mauri KallioProduction: DIVETECH
Mar 11 2020
Finnish navy divers in the late 1950’s
The following pictures of Finnish conscripts doing their military service and diver training have been dated back to the late 1950’s. Vesa Eronen, who took the training in 1958, identified the gear and vessels to be from that time period. Navy diver training took place at Pansio naval base in city of Turku back then. …
Mar 09 2020
Updated: Historical diving event postponed
The European Historical Diving Event 2020 has been postponed due to the corona virus pandemic. We hope to reschedule the event for 15.9. when it will be organised in conjuction with the Turku day as a two-day event (diving and lectures). If you have paid, tell us where to return your payment. Email: jouko.moisala@dnainternet.net Check …
Feb 13 2020
Book: Finnish Air Force Divers 1964-2000
This book familiarizes you with diving the finnish air forces from its beginnings in 16.3.1964 to its shutdown in 30.6.2000. The book is unfortunately available only in Finnish. The book mentions that the divers were also aircraft technicians or better and that they were used to study aircraft accidents where the aircraft had sunk in …
Jan 23 2020
European Historical Diving Event
Friday — field trips and get together After checking in at the hostel ship there is a welcome event and a visit to the nearby maritime museum. Next there is a visit to a shipyard. The field trip day is completed with a trip to a commercial diving company and to see our own collections. …
Dec 24 2019
Some Finnish diving magazines 1974-2018
Old membership magazines of the finnish recreational divers federation (Suomen urheilusukeltajain liitto, later Sukeltajaliitto) can now be read online. The magazines are written in finnish but the pictures could be interesting to the international audience. Thank you Sukeltajaliitto for a great act of publishing history!
Dec 20 2019
Merry christmas!
The Historical Diving Society of Finland wishes its friends, supporters and colleagues a merry chrtistmas and a happy new year!
Dec 19 2019
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 …