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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DF80A18D6FC96FAB079903A8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Paolo Velcich industrial designer ********************** KORUM DESIGN Viale Tricesimo 5/6 33100 - UDINE - ITALY Tel. 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