Brian Nystrom wrote:

Tinkerntom wrote:

Brian and Wilko, you both represent alot of diverse paddling
experience. I found this article which was originally released as a
white page news brief by Bare, significant for the kayaking community.

http://tinyurl.com/6wozp

There's one word for the dry suit portion of this article. That word is
"bull****".

Ladner claims Jacques Cousteau invented neoprene "after the second world
war." That would probably come as a surprise to Arnold Collins and
Wallace Carothers, whom Dupont says invented the stuff in 1930. And
Dupont considers in synthetic rubber, not plastic.

Maybe Cousteau invented wetsuits? Not according to this, although it
does credit him with inventing the SCUBA tank.
http://www.divinghistory.com/historyofthewetsuit.htm

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Steve Cramer
Athens, GA

Steve Cramer wrote:
Brian Nystrom wrote:

Tinkerntom wrote:

Brian and Wilko, you both represent alot of diverse paddling
experience. I found this article which was originally released as a
white page news brief by Bare, significant for the kayaking community.

http://tinyurl.com/6wozp


There's one word for the dry suit portion of this article. That word
is "bull****".


Ladner claims Jacques Cousteau invented neoprene "after the second world
war." That would probably come as a surprise to Arnold Collins and
Wallace Carothers, whom Dupont says invented the stuff in 1930. And
Dupont considers in synthetic rubber, not plastic.

Maybe Cousteau invented wetsuits? Not according to this, although it
does credit him with inventing the SCUBA tank.
http://www.divinghistory.com/historyofthewetsuit.htm

That's interesting. I knew that Cousteau is considered the inventor of
SCUBA, but I hadn't heard either of these other two claims. I wonder if
this guy thinks that wetsuits need to be wet to work, too? ;-)

Steve Cramer wrote:

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Maybe Cousteau invented wetsuits? Not according to this, although it
does credit him with inventing the SCUBA tank.
http://www.divinghistory.com/historyofthewetsuit.htm


I read his book. His claim was that he invented the regulator. The tank
was available (since there were already needs for compressed air and
tanks were quite available after WWII). I think there is some doubt
whether he, or his buddy (Dumas?), who actually invented the regulator,
even.

Still, interesting character, to say the least. Watching him evolve from
a callous intruder into the depths into one of its greatest caretakers
was interesting, to say the least.

Rick