Dive History/Mask Question

Years ago, an instructor in a scube course claimed that the clear mask
skirt was developed for the movie "The Deep," staring Nick Nolte and
Jaqueline Bisset. The claim was that the director could not get good
underwater face shots of Bisset with the black-skirted masks of the
day, and special ordered masks with clear skirts.

Does anyone know for sure if this is fact or fiction?

Thanks,

Mike Westerfield

Grumman-581 wrote:
> "mike gray" <omgray@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>
>>When they first started using silicone for masks, replacing
>>rubber, they not only came in clear, but in green, yellow, and
>>black.
>
>
> Still available in clear and black... Haven't seen any other colors
> lately...
>
> I don't remember when the first starting making them though... I reading an
> article back in the early 1980s that talked about them... Basically, they
> were so expensive at that time that very few people actually used them...
> Back then, I had one of the old 3-pane black rubber with stainless steel rim
> type masks... Don't remember what ever happened to that mask... Probably got
> lost when I was being transferred from one base to another way back then...
> It probably leaked the least of any mask that I ever owned...
>
>
>
I still have 2 or 3 of those. US Divers I think. Rubber's pretty
rotten. They were great masks, didn't leak, and had a nice
purge. Also very high volume.

"mike gray" <omgray@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> I still have 2 or 3 of those. US Divers I think. Rubber's pretty
> rotten. They were great masks, didn't leak, and had a nice
> purge. Also very high volume.

Sounds about right... I tended to have a lot of US Divers equipment back
then... Even the old US Divers knife...
http://i3.tinypic.com/w1uxjb.jpg

I can remember me and a couple of buddies in the barrack with a couple of
6-packs trying to learn how to throw that knife... From around 15-20 ft
away, it would go through a 3/4" piece of plywood... Then again, even if you
hit it with the handle end, it would nearly go through... I suspect there
were a couple of pounds of lead that I didn't need to carry when I had it...