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To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:33:38 +0100
From: mat.voss@t-*.de* (Matthias Voss)
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: scooters (Protei)
anthony.appleyard@um*.ac*.uk* schrieb:

> They even sold Titov the cosmonaut's spacesuit. (Before that, I saw
> it in the Kaliningrad near Moscow (where their Mission Control is)
> when I went with a party to Moscow and Baikonur that time.)
> (Russian has the same word "skafandr" for "diving suit" and
> "spacesuit".)


I saw a marine survival suit in Yemen, leftover fron a wreck there.
Pretty good stuff, and certified by "Germanische Lloyd".



 
> > There are some other Russian scooters around in Germany, big red ones,
> > four handles, you carry them as a team, and go diving as a team with one
> > scooter. ...
 
> What do they look like? Where is a picture of one?

I'll pm you you the adress of someone you has one. it looks more like a
Zepp, but substantially bigger.
> 
> Why red? Red seems rather a revealing color for undercover
> operations.

Not even red, but a reddish orange.
May be they do it even for fun ;-)

Matthias
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