Many thanks for Hard Hat Diver Jacques Abdoun from France for sharing some photo’s of his ‘Équipe’. Jacques dives a 12 bolt 4 light Siebe Gorman helmet. This helmet retired in the late 1970’s after a construction job in the Harbor of Mutrah - Masqat, Sultanate of Oman. After Jacques obtained this helmet last year he restored it into working condition and took it back to the sea: he dives it with friends and family.
Historical Diving in France. ‘Babteme Pieds-Lourds’ in Issambres, France December 2017
Photographs Equipe Abdoun
Photographs Equipe Abdoun
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Equipe Abdoun, ‘Babteme Pieds-Lourds’ in Issambres, France April 2018
2018. Plongée Retro in Cerbere, France
In the summer of 1984 I started diving my Dutch Army Engineers Siebe Gorman set commercially; together with a friend I visited diving clubs all over Holland to allow their members a ‘Hard Hat Experience’. After 3 years I moved down South and started doing the same thing in France. The first diving club where I started diving was the diving club of the SNCF (French Railways) in Cerbere. 31 years later for the very first time a ‘Retro Diving’ weekend was organized in Cerbere, obviously I had to be there ... All together 3 different diving equipments were being dived: a Siebe Gorman 4 light 12 bolt set, a Miller Dunn Divinhood Style 3 and a Soviet Russian UVS50m 3 bolt. The sets were in full use all the weekend: I wish I had as many clients in one weekend back in 1987(!) ... Click at the poster above to get to the photographs.
Many thanks for Hard Hat Diver Jacques Abdoun from France for sharing some photo’s of his ‘Équipe’. Jaques and his ‘équipe’ dive 2 helmets here: a 1917 Nippon Sensui helmet and a specially ordered TF 12 helmet from China which was given a top light. Usually Jacques uses compressed air supplied by a Dräger ‘D6000 Taucherautomat’, here he uses a Dräger Labor 2 and a US Navy style air valve.
Historical Diving in France. ‘Babteme Pieds-Lourds’ in Issambres, France February 2021
Photographs Equipe Abdoun
Photographs Equipe Abdoun
Equipe Abdoun, ‘Christmas Dives’ in Issambres, France December 2020
