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DEVELOPMENT OF THE OXYGEN REBREATHER

by Maurizio Baldinucci - July 2019
From the apparatus of Sir Robert Davis to the Aro of the men "Gamma", from the Dräger Tauchretter by Hans Hass to the Cressi "57 B". The compelling story of the oxygen breathing apparatus told through the episodes of war and the sporting adventures that have seen it protagonist.

BREATHING UNDERWATER THROUGH A "BEER CAN"

by Maurizio Baldinucci - February 2019
When the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator started to spread, his success led individual inventors and underwater manufacturers to explore alternative technical solutions. Skills and imagination have bloomed, often giving life to instruments with unusual shapes.

HISTORY OF THE SINGLE HOSE REGULATOR

by Maurizio Baldinucci - April 2019
Who invented the single-hose regulator? Actually it is the result of a long and complex evolution that occurred in the same years in various parts of the world. Maurizio Baldinucci displays with passion the adventurous history of this instrument to which we owe the universal expansion of diving.

CINEMA AND UNDERWATER BREATHING DEVICES

by Maurizio Baldinucci - March 2018
It was 1943 when J. Y. Cousteau shot the documentary "Épave" (Wrecks) in which the prototype of a regulator appeared. Since then divers with their breathing apparatus have been the protagonists of countless films, retraced by the author through documents and images now rare.

The Mistral’s amazing origins

di Maurizio BaldinucciNovembre 2017
Maurizio Baldinucci ci fa scoprire le origini del Mistral e il suo sviluppo tecnologico durato quasi vent'anni attraverso un gran numero di modelli e di soluzioni insospettate. Una ricostruzione tecnico-storica senza pari per accuratezza e documentazione iconografica.