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iain-hsm · 18th August 2007, 16:08

Quote: (Originally Posted by lizardland)

In For Your Eyes Only, Bond uses a backpack with a KMB helmet which looks remarkably CCR like (apart from the bubbles

).

Out of interest I have had the pleasure to work for Egil Woxholt who was the 2nd unit underwater cameraman for a number of the “Bond” movies as well as many others, his work included:
1965 Thunderball
1969 HM Secret Service
1981 Das Boot
1985 View to a Kill

Before his death in 1991 We used to get his stainless steel camera housing at our works and (repair) modify, weld up and polish up the dammed thing. Egil at the time lived in London, the housing looked like a cross between a small Russian silver Spuknik satellite and an atomic weapon. I used to drive down to deliver the beast, get as near his flat as I could and drag the thing down the street the rest of the way. Try that today! lol

In the “For your Eyes Only” film the diver in yellow is Dave Heales from Normalair Garret, the yellow rig is in fact a prototype CCR Royal Navy NGL Model “Deep Dive 500” Westland helicopters who had taken over Normalair Garret promptly sold it, We still have the fabrication drawings at work, if interested I will dig them up and post. It was a very capable system for deep diving lock out, sadly at the time the director of underwater weapons at Royal Navy Portland (DGUW) didn’t take kindly to his “sensitive” UBA gear turning up in a “Bond” movie, I guess he didn’t need the publicity or the money, should have sold him on Egil’s camera housing and told him it was found “floating” in Portland harbour. iain

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iain-hsm Custom Title Allowed! Current Rebreather/s: MK 15.X Other CCR Other SCR Other Rebreather/s: Other CCR Other SCR Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Loughborough England uk Posts: 347	Re: James Bond on a Rebreather? Quote: (Originally Posted by lizardland) In For Your Eyes Only, Bond uses a backpack with a KMB helmet which looks remarkably CCR like (apart from the bubbles ). Out of interest I have had the pleasure to work for Egil Woxholt who was the 2nd unit underwater cameraman for a number of the “Bond” movies as well as many others, his work included: 1965 Thunderball 1969 HM Secret Service 1981 Das Boot 1985 View to a Kill Before his death in 1991 We used to get his stainless steel camera housing at our works and (repair) modify, weld up and polish up the dammed thing. Egil at the time lived in London, the housing looked like a cross between a small Russian silver Spuknik satellite and an atomic weapon. I used to drive down to deliver the beast, get as near his flat as I could and drag the thing down the street the rest of the way. Try that today! lol In the “For your Eyes Only” film the diver in yellow is Dave Heales from Normalair Garret, the yellow rig is in fact a prototype CCR Royal Navy NGL Model “Deep Dive 500” Westland helicopters who had taken over Normalair Garret promptly sold it, We still have the fabrication drawings at work, if interested I will dig them up and post. It was a very capable system for deep diving lock out, sadly at the time the director of underwater weapons at Royal Navy Portland (DGUW) didn’t take kindly to his “sensitive” UBA gear turning up in a “Bond” movie, I guess he didn’t need the publicity or the money, should have sold him on Egil’s camera housing and told him it was found “floating” in Portland harbour. iain
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