Exhibition. Memories from the Abyss-Viareggio, 2004
Saturday, December 11st, 2004 in Viareggio (Tuscany), has happened the opening of the exhibition -Memories from the abyss-, about the history of the viareggio’s navy, organized by the local Rotary Club and the International Artiglio Award, in the same building where will be the new Tuscany Navy’s Museum, that will be opened, just during the III International Artiglio Award, that will be held in Viareggio, care of the Principe di Piemonte’s Center of Congress, from thursday, 2nd to sunday, 5th June 2005. Has been invited also Piero Lapiana, both for the Club Panerai and both for the Scuba Divers Society -Teseo Tesei- of Viareggio, considered their participation, in May 2003, to the II edition of the Award.
Some of the photos made during the opening of the exhibition, with free entrance and that will close tuesday, 11st January 2005.
A view of the pier of Viareggio (The exhibition is on the left side, the harbour is at the bottom, while the restaurant -Buonamico- is on the right side) During the press conference for the opening of the exhibition, into the conference room of the Commune of Viareggio The poster of the exhibition In front of the museum, location of the exhibition. In the centre, with the glassess, there is just Sauro Sodini of the Artiglio At the entrance of the exhibition, with the (yellow) Galeazzi's metallic diving suit and the Galeazzi’s turrett for the works at big depth Diving suits, helmets and knifes for the scuba-diver Little model of the typical viareggio’s boat of the beginning of the last century, nicknamed -barcobestia- (derivation just from the old british sailor’s expression, the best barca/boat!) Cover of the italian magazine at that time -La Tribuna Illustrata-, with the drawing of the sinking, due to an explosion on board during some works of recovery of the viareggio’s scuba-divers, of the ship Artiglio, in the December 7th, 1930 at Quiberon (France) Some of the objects exhibited Piero Lapiana with, on the right, Carlo Ruggieri, 1st Warrant Officier, now on leave, of the Commandos of the Italian Navy -Com.Sub.In.- , member of the Scuba Divers Society -Teseo Tesei- and the same Carlo Ruggieri, in a famous photo of the end of the 1950’s with the wrist occupied… Piero Lapiana with, on the left, Mirko Zaia, 1st Warrant Officier of the Commandos of the Italian Navy -Com.Sub.In.- Copy of the display given free, from the Scuba Diver Society -Teseo Tesei-, to the HQ of the Commandos of the Italian Navy, in La Spezia, -Com.Sub.In.-, with the sand taken from the depth of the harbour of La Valletta, Island of Malta, in the March 1998, just where, in the July 1941, Teseo Tesei and Alcide Pedretti dead Copy of the pottery given free, from the Scuba Diver Society -Teseo Tesei-, to the War Naval Museum of La Valletta, in the March 1998, with the lines of the italian poetry dedicated to the scuba-divers Spanner of regulation of the Oxigen Autobreathing Apparatus, the italian A.R.O., found by us, some years ago, just in the old house in Bocca di Serchio! Cover of the acts of the II International Artiglio Award and the chapter of the report by Mario Paci, of the Panerai Sistemi, now Calzoni-Kollmorgen Group in Bologna, for the introduction of the book, written by D. Zei, -The Panerai of Florence, 159 years of history From the Club Panerai, a special thanks to the Coordinator of the Museum, Flavio Serafini, to the President of the International Artiglio Award, Francesco Sodini and to Sauro Sodini, of the Scuba Divers Club Artiglio
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