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Stan Holford

Stan belongs to: The Diving Centre Ltd

Stan became fascinated with diving from an early age from reading stories about the frogmen. He started The Diving Centre Ltd in 1959.

Stan was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 7 November 2005. The interview took place at the Interviewee's living room and lasted 1 hour, 27 minutes and 45 seconds.

Hard hat

Hard hat

'Hard hat' diving helmet. These diving helemts were worn for commercial dives rather than for leisure diving.

Stan has 19 memories in the memorynet:

Stan's memories with a Leisure theme:

•  Starting diving
•  Starting The Diving Centre
•  Diving in Malta
•  Wreck diving

Stan's other memories:

•  Training programmes
•  Early wetsuits
•  Clammy death
•  Commercial diving gear
•  Training people to breathe properly
•  Diving in the North Sea
•  Sounds
•  Commercial diving
•  Treasure Hunt
•  Trail-a-boats
•  Stan
•  Hard hat
•  Freddy the Dolphin
•  The Lobster Pot
•  Waterskiing the English Channel

This memory has these themes:
Equipment | Work

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