Comment by Bill Gardner on September 10, 2009 at 5:16pm
Hi Stuart, This hat was one of many designed like Joe Savoie's flip up style lightweight hats-KirbyMorgan had a clamshell, the Piel, Helmax and others, something just occurred to me -these helmets came on the tail of lightweight heavy gear ie Yokohama hats, KirbyMorgan, Toa, etc. There was a routine -attaching the helmet to the dress and the annoyance of getting all the gear on to be stood down, pause for other preparations to be completed pre-dive, I can recall waiting on s*** while I was dressed in, my tender had tied me to the ladder while he ran away for some very important mission (to have a smoke) Don't quote me but the only other way to talk to the diver (other than running to the radio) was to open hie face port...
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