On 16 Feb 2001, at 13:55, David Strike wrote:

> On Friday, February 16, 2001 12:45 PM, stanwood gray (Joe) wrote:
>
> > some possible categories for scuba trivia/info quiz
>
> Here's a few, Joe!  :-)
>
> > Dive History
>
> What were the names of the first people to invent a scuba regulator?  And in
> what year?

Gagnan(sp) and some other dude.. :-)
Dunt remember the year..



> Henry Fleuss is best remembered for ...what?

Rebreathers...


> What impact did Prof. Elihu Thomson, (the man credited with inventing the
> cream separator), have on the development of diving?

?


> Also remembered for saving the flegling Australian wine industry from the
> effects of blight, what was the name of the first person to develop a
> practical underwater camera?  And in what year?

?

>
> > Equipment
> Who patented the first rubber foot fins?  In what year?
> Which American - bearing the name of a famous statesman - manufactured the
> first fins under license?

?

> What were the names of the two Olympic swimmers - both later becoming movie
> stars and playing the same fictional character - who tested those fins?

Johnny Weismueller(sp)? and ?


>
> > Dive Medicine
> For what is Prof. Haldane - the elder - best remembered?

Decompression Algorithm....


>
> > Dive travel
> In what year was the CozNEDFest? And who was there?  :-)

1999 and a buncha insane lunatics that at the same time from
around the world all escaped their respective asylums...  :-)


> What is the name of the world's largest, accessible-to-divers, shipwreck?

Doria?


> Where is it?

Off the coast of New York/ New Jersey...


>
> > Dive "rules" and etiquette
> I'm not too good at etiquette!  :-)
>
> > Dive literature
> In Jules Verne's, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea", Professor Arronax
> (sp?) mentions two Frenchmen who contributed to diving:  What were their
> names?  And for what are they best remembered?

Gagnan again and don't remember the other one....


>
> > Acronyms and abbreviations
> That'll take forever!  :-)
>
> Strike


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