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HANS AND LOTTE HASS |
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German naturalists and divers Hans and Lotte Hass…
Their intrepid underwater films, such as 'Undersea World Of Adventure' were dubbed for English and German audiences, and they proved very popular in Britain.
Their first series in 1956 show the photogenic aquanauts submerged beneath the Caribbean, The Aegean and the Red Sea.
It was then followed by 'Undersea World of Adventure' in 1958 and later 'Adventure' (1959-60).
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Hans Hass was born in Vienna on 23rd Jan. 1919 as a son of a lawyer.
The 18-year old Hass was in the South of France in 1937 and he was always interested of the mysterious sea, he also
put the head under the water and he was immediately fascinated by this fairytale world.
In 1938 Hans built housing for the first sub-water camera, a (mostly) watertight case for his Rolleiflex.
Within the years 1941/1942 Hans Hass has collaborated substantially at the first swimming aqualung of the world of the company Dräger.
He has dived with oxygen, with compressed air, with circulation equipment, with re-breather and he experienced his first depth high when we didn't know that there is something like that at all.
From the sports diver became the first marine biologist. Hans Hass financed all dive expeditions alone and he was all
over the whole Mediterranean Sea, in the Red Sea, in the Pacific and naturally also in the Indian Ocean and he dived in
the most Maldives atolls.
He had His first diving ship the legendary "Seeteufel" for only 3 years then she was confiscated by the Russians in
1945, but already 1951 he bought the "Xarifa" that took him diving for 20 years. Today, a diving place is still known in
the south of the North Male atoll as "Hans Hass Place" and the to date unknown, shy Tube-Eels Heteroconger hassi
and Xarifania hassi are named after him and his ship.
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