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I live in the far north east of Italy, our sea basin is the Adriatic and
there're a lot of wrecks all around, at various depths from 20m (85ft) or
less to 100m (300ft) and more, but a great number of them stay in the
40/60m range (130/200ft). The most of them are medium sized ships sinked in
the big war games period (1915-1948).

I must specify I'm not what you could define a tech-diver, even if I'm
really attracted by technology and innovation and really intrigued with
diving in all of its aspects.
I could be viewed as a tech since I'm personally interested and involved in
the technical aspects of diving equipments from years and I'm personally
developing some new "toys" (currently under advanced development,
prototyping and/or test) in the field of UW propulsion, lightings and
electronics. Unfortunately the project has been delayed during the past
months and will probably proceed slowly in the next six months because
other important jobs on the deadline (this is my secondary activity for the
moment).

I'm very close to a group of real wrekkies (I gave them the address of this
mail-list, maybe they're reading) and they're really informed on the
Adriatic wrecks (they actually discovered and documented several of them).

Just to add some interesting info: along the coasts of Istria and Dalmatia,
there're some important diving sites (wrecks) and many others still wait to
be discovered. At the end of the 1st WWar the Austro-Hungarian fleet lost
several ships here and many others self-sunk when they lost the war.
The St.Stephen, the admiral battleship lies upside-down in 67m not far from
Mali Losinj a wonderful island in the Kvarner gulf. Its main turrets lies
around on the muddy ground. The site is closed (for what I know) but an
hungarian expedition visited it few years ago.

My personal gear is:
Dry suit - DUI TLS
OceanReef NIRA full face mask - with Mares MR22 CWD first (DIN)
Mares Abyss - MR22 CWD separate first stage. (DIN)
Oceanic integrated console
Uwatec Aladin Pro Nitrox
18lt mono air (steel) with dual valves.
DiveRite Sport Wing
DiveRite-like weight harness
Tusa fins
Cressi Occhio (spare mask)
Mares ESA (still have a pair, very good on air, the worst thing for apnea
and or snorkeling)
Scubapro and Technisub lamps (and obviously lot of personal prototypes)
Scubapro SeaShuttle scooter (nice toy, poor project)

---some local market info---
Mares is very popular in Italy but during the past two years they did a lot
of mistakes and got back several items from computers to ESA (Both of mine
were replaced twice and even the latest models returned unused and
unusable..., waiting for the next replacement) to suits. Very sorry about
that, they seem to have a very good design and an innovative spirit but a
lack in the manufacturing process (this is the true for the recent past and
I hope they'll fix it to the old standards).

Technisub was also very popular but I can see they're loosing places.

Scubapro is rapidly growing on the market and I can see they're very
aggressive.

Some smaller regional companies gained the favour of the market expecially
because the big industries deserted the annual trade show in Bologna over
the years and the smalls got the real contact with the people and were able
to satisfy their requests.

---trends---
On the more technical side, I can see Poseidon, DUI, AGA and Ziegle are the
most used. DUI is really trendy but the most expensive on the market.
Mobby's is also very popular (but still high priced) and Viking. In our
area there's a big technical dealer (mainly a mil and commercial
contractor) importing DUI, VIKING,Polar Bear, Poseidon, Ziegle, Force-fins,
Dragger and manufacturing some very good dry suits, AQUATICA (Venezia).
Poseidon neoprene suits are mostly visible on german divers (our area is a
natural diving place for most of the central european diving communities).

I'm sorry, I was too long but I wanted to give you the information you
requested, if you're interested on knowing more about diving in the
Adriatic, please don't hesitate.
As soon as my dedicated site www.x-plora.com will move from the
discontinued ISP to the new waiting server (if InterNic will finally do
what I asked for months), we'll publish again an entire site dedicated to
wrecks and techs. We previously had a section dedicated to AquaCorps since
my friends translated and delivered it in Italy. They're still involved in
UW publishing and they got rights for Deepp Diving, MixedGas Diving and
Wreck Diving (already translated) and something really interesting is
coming soon. Don't check for x-plora, it's still dead I'll post a message
when on-line again.

Deep blues and blue skies

Paolo



Michael Waldbrenner wrote:

> Where in Italy do you dive ???
> Michael
>
> I saw you mail in the tec-list and there are not many italian people on
> the list

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Paolo Velcich
industrial designer
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KORUM DESIGN
Viale Tricesimo 5/6
33100 - UDINE - ITALY
Tel. (+39)0348-2611707
e-mail: pavel@ma*.na*.it*
http://www.nauta.com
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