Geezzz...maybe I should start this project now

Going through some boxes in storage and ran into my 1970 copy of Mart Toggweiler's "How to build your own Underwater Camera Housing" (New Revised Edition). I remember buying it shortly after having sat through an LA County Advanced Diving Course presentation on Underwater Photography by Jim and Cathy Church. Was going to build a housing for my Dad's 8mm Bolex and shoot those crazy seals at Santa Barbara Island. Never was able to talk my Dad into loaning me the camera...LOL. Ironicly, my Dad passed away exactly a year ago and I inhereted his old Bolex. Maybe to honor my Dad and Mart's legacy I should build that housing retro style .

Does anybody here know what happened with Mart's Hydrotech business? Last I heard was that he had sold the business to some surfer dude. Google and Amazon search have not given me any new information. I would like to find out if the instruction manual's copyright is owned by Toggweiler or Hydrotech.

Bo

Going through some boxes in storage and ran into my 1970 copy of Mart Toggweiler's "How to build your own Underwater Camera Housing" (New Revised Edition). I remember buying it shortly after having sat through an LA County Advanced Diving Course presentation on Underwater Photography by Jim and Cathy Church. Was going to build a housing for my Dad's 8mm Bolex and shoot those crazy seals at Santa Barbara Island. Never was able to talk my Dad into loaning me the camera...LOL. Ironicly, my Dad passed away exactly a year ago and I inhereted his old Bolex. Maybe to honor my Dad and Mart's legacy I should build that housing retro style .

 

Does anybody here know what happened with Mart's Hydrotech business? Last I heard was that he had sold the business to some surfer dude. Google and Amazon search have not given me any new information. I would like to find out if the instruction manual's copyright is owned by Toggweiler or Hydrotech.

 

Bo

I'm trying to get up a scan of the cover as an attachment on this post, but the upload is not working for me. HELP!

Can you scan it as a JPEG then just attach like a photo?

Steve

Can you scan it as a JPEG then just attach like a photo?

 

Steve

Thanks Steve.

Being a newbie to this site I found the 64kbit pic posting limit here and it just did not allow the scans to be seen with anything readable. So I have uploaded the full resolution JPEG scans to Yahoo's Flickr and hopefully those interested in seeing the first definitive book on DIY for housings can see the 3 scans of this book. I have scanned the front and rear cover in one, the second scan has the copyright information and forward, the third scan has the 2nd edition reasoning and the contents page.

Mart Toggweiler published the first edition of "How to build your own Underwater Camera Housing" in 1962. He updated with a full new revised 2nd Edition in 1970 (which is the one I have scanned here). It sold for $1.95. Insert updates were later included in 1973 and again in 1976. I have no knowledge if anything more was done after 1976.

The 3 scans hopefully can be seen at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130730756/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130731556/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130730980/

Some more interesting history on Mart can be found at: http://www.visitingcatalina.com/diving.html

and at: http://www.laups.org/club_history/index.php

I met Mart personally only a few times in late 70's when I was working for the Aquatic Center in Newport Beach, Ca. then owned by Ron Merker, Omar Wood and Dick Spencer. The Aquatic Center had at the time arguably the best underwater photo department in So. Ca. We were biggest sellers of Ikelite and Oceanic housings for the than hot Canon and Nikon F series with the fantstic huge sportfinders. We were the few that were shooting various housed Hassy's and Rollei medium format camera's. The latest hot camera was the Nikonos V with the revolutionary TTL metering. Any photo dummy could now get a properly exposed picture...LOL. I kept my NikIII till this date .

Some more interesting related history. Ron Merker before the Aquatic Center, was Mart Toggweiler's deckhand on the Maray. Ron, and his lovely wife Carol, were the subjects for Mart's first 16mm underwater movie shot at Catalina. Prelude to my childhood inspiration (and to many those days) to diving, the TV show "Sea Hunt".

Another former employee of the Aquatic Center was action adventure author Clive Cussler, who included his employers Ron, Omar and Dick as characters in his Dirk Pitt series novels. He sure seems to have done well with his avocation .

OK, enough of memory lane. I'm just glad I can still remember...LOL.

Cheers,

Bo

Thanks Steve.

 

Being a newbie to this site I found the 64kbit pic posting limit here and it just did not allow the scans to be seen with anything readable. So I have uploaded the full resolution JPEG scans to Yahoo's Flickr and hopefully those interested in seeing the first definitive book on DIY for housings can see the 3 scans of this book. I have scanned the front and rear cover in one, the second scan has the copyright information and forward, the third scan has the 2nd edition reasoning and the contents page.

 

Mart Toggweiler published the first edition of "How to build your own Underwater Camera Housing" in 1962. He updated with a full new revised 2nd Edition in 1970 (which is the one I have scanned here). It sold for $1.95. Insert updates were later included in 1973 and again in 1976. I have no knowledge if anything more was done after 1976.

 

The 3 scans hopefully can be seen at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130730756/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130731556/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22077211@N05/2130730980/

 

Some more interesting history on Mart can be found at: http://www.visitingcatalina.com/diving.html

and at: http://www.laups.org/club_history/index.php

 

I met Mart personally only a few times in late 70's when I was working for the Aquatic Center in Newport Beach, Ca. then owned by Ron Merker, Omar Wood and Dick Spencer. The Aquatic Center had at the time arguably the best underwater photo department in So. Ca. We were biggest sellers of Ikelite and Oceanic housings for the than hot Canon and Nikon F series with the fantstic huge sportfinders. We were the few that were shooting various housed Hassy's and Rollei medium format camera's. The latest hot camera was the Nikonos V with the revolutionary TTL metering. Any photo dummy could now get a properly exposed picture...LOL. I kept my NikIII till this date .

 

Some more interesting related history. Ron Merker before the Aquatic Center, was Mart Toggweiler's deckhand on the Maray. Ron, and his lovely wife Carol, were the subjects for Mart's first 16mm underwater movie shot at Catalina. Prelude to my childhood inspiration (and to many those days) to diving, the TV show "Sea Hunt".

 

Another former employee of the Aquatic Center was action adventure author Clive Cussler, who included his employers Ron, Omar and Dick as characters in his Dirk Pitt series novels. He sure seems to have done well with his avocation .

 

OK, enough of memory lane. I'm just glad I can still remember...LOL.

 

Cheers,

Bo

flickr says it is a private photo and I can't view it?? What should I do??

flickr says it is a private photo and I can't view it?? What should I do??

Hi,

Happy New Year and my apologies for having accidental privacy setting on the pics. Went into Flickr and undid setting and should be viewable by all now. .

Bo