I don't think scuba diving adopted a "nerdy" image until the 90's. Up until the late 80's, scuba diving was often times used to titillate the male libido. Going back to the mid 60's, there were lots of diving gear companies that featured sexy women in dive gear and most especially in body hugging wetsuits. By the time you got to the mid 80's, it was hard to tell if the wetsuit ads you saw in Skin Diver looked like they were photographed by young men who thought they were doing a photo layout for Victoria's Secret. Bosoms nearly spilling out of unzipped wetsuits were the order of the day.
And who can forget Jacqueline Bisset diving in that white t-shirt during the first ten minutes of The Deep? There was also a Hart To Hart episode where a male scuba diver is seduced by a female assassin, and let's not forget the B-movie Piranha II: The Spawning, which had an underwater sex scene.
But by the end of the 80's, that all went away. Political correctness swooped in, and the sport took on a very boring, very G rated image.
I see where Mike Meyers got so much parody out of some of the early advert gimmicks for his Austin Powers films? It makes one wonder if people were really allowed to practice medicine even with a license back then? Beauty bait in a sea of hungry men and monsters and Man this is good whiskey, but then they were 1st time breaking grounds for much of this stuff, trial and error. i can see Meyers saying "oH!! LOOK WERE LAUGHING IN THE SNOW WHILE WE HAVE DIVE GEAR ON!! OH! NO! LOOK I`M LAUGHING , WERE HAVING SO MUCH FUN here doing this!
Nerdy image?
I don't think scuba diving adopted a "nerdy" image until the 90's. Up until the late 80's, scuba diving was often times used to titillate the male libido. Going back to the mid 60's, there were lots of diving gear companies that featured sexy women in dive gear and most especially in body hugging wetsuits. By the time you got to the mid 80's, it was hard to tell if the wetsuit ads you saw in Skin Diver looked like they were photographed by young men who thought they were doing a photo layout for Victoria's Secret. Bosoms nearly spilling out of unzipped wetsuits were the order of the day.
And who can forget Jacqueline Bisset diving in that white t-shirt during the first ten minutes of The Deep? There was also a Hart To Hart episode where a male scuba diver is seduced by a female assassin, and let's not forget the B-movie Piranha II: The Spawning, which had an underwater sex scene.
But by the end of the 80's, that all went away. Political correctness swooped in, and the sport took on a very boring, very G rated image.
oH! look were having so much fun!
I see where Mike Meyers got so much parody out of some of the early advert gimmicks for his Austin Powers films? It makes one wonder if people were really allowed to practice medicine even with a license back then? Beauty bait in a sea of hungry men and monsters and Man this is good whiskey, but then they were 1st time breaking grounds for much of this stuff, trial and error. i can see Meyers saying "oH!! LOOK WERE LAUGHING IN THE SNOW WHILE WE HAVE DIVE GEAR ON!! OH! NO! LOOK I`M LAUGHING , WERE HAVING SO MUCH FUN here doing this!