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As someone who writes textbooks, I'd be overwhelmed and delighted if such a great lead was first dangled in front of me, then not only dangled, but unearthed and given a name, number and face. Usually I have to dig and chase all by myself.

Thanks for the history lesson, Doc.

Mr Miller, don't miss a chance for further accuracy even if you have a deadline looming.

And thanks, ScubaBoarders, for bringing this story to light.
 
I read this discussion with mucht interest. But then suddenly it stopped. I'm very curios how it ends. Can anyone tell me?

(sorry to bring up old discussions)
 
I made my first dive in the late summer of 1956, my Dad had a dive flag back then ... I remember it clearly. How could that be if Ted Nixon did not introduce it until a year later? I don't know what the reality of it all is, I was way to young, but that is my memory.
 
Like Thal, I dont believe Sam. I saw an article in Doc's dive shop on how and why he come up with the flag we know. It even had Ted Nixon talking about promoting it. I dont want to take anything away from Sam's contributions to the diving world but I think some facts are missing and hos story is wrong. I doubt any more facts ever come out on this.
 
I'm not disagreeing or contradicting Sam, just adding what I remember for consideration, the truth is always hard to get at.
 
Except that link yields a cut and paste from the unknown, one that lists the wetsuit as being invented in 1956 and I know for a fact that Hugh Bradner, a University of California, Berkeley physicist invented the modern wetsuit in 1951. I'm not taking sides, but those are not authoritative sources.
 
Except that link yields a cut and paste from the unknown, one that lists the wetsuit as being invented in 1956 and I know for a fact that Hugh Bradner, a University of California, Berkeley physicist invented the modern wetsuit in 1951. I'm not taking sides, but those are not authoritative sources.

Were you there as a student then? :D
 
No, way before my time, but I did meet Hugh Bradner several times when I was down at Scripps.
 
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