Raimondo Bucher
Raimondo Bucher (Gödöllő, March 15, 1912 - Rome, September 10, 2008) was an Italian freediver and scuba diver, pioneer of Italian and world diving and underwater photocinematography.
Biography
[edit]Raimondo Bucher was born to an Italian father on March 15, 1912 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1932 he entered the italian Regia Aeronautica by enrolling in the Bergamo air piloting school, where in 1937 he became a flight and aerobatics instructor. During the Second World War he participated in numerous war actions and after 8 September 1943, he joined the Allies in the war of liberation, after which he remained in service in the Air Force with the rank of Captain.[1]
In 1937, his aviation students gave him a diving mask and a spring-loaded speargun and in his dives, he perfected the maneuver of equalization with the noseclip inside the divemask [2] , which immediately allowed him to descend in apnea even at -25 meters.[1] He employed this technique all his life.[3]
In 1949 at Capri he descended in apnea to -29 meters in the presence of a commission and in 1950, accepting the challenge of the "Circolo Subacquei Napoletani" (Neapolitan Underwater Club), in the presence of the federal commissioners he descended to -30 meters: this was the first official freediving world record.[4][5][6] In 1952, he set a new world record by free diving down to -39 meters.[7]
In the same year he participates, together with his wife Enza in the "National Underwater Expedition in the Red Sea" from which the feature film "Sesto Continente", the first full-color underwater documentary, was made by Bruno Vailati and Folco Quilici[8] (1954).
In 1962, Raimondo Bucher began to train Luciana Civico (who later became his wife) in scuba diving and in the same year Luciana Civico obtained the compressed air diving record, reaching the depth of -80mt.[9]
Publications
[edit]- Raimondo Bucher, "I Segreti del Mare", Firenze, Centro Internazionale del Libro, 1959.
- Raimondo Bucher, "L'immersione subacquea", Milano, Mondadori, 1967.
- Raimondo Bucher, "Una vita in fondo al mare", Nardini, 1984, ISBN 9788840442402.
- Raimondo Bucher, "La mia vita tra terra, cielo e mare", Formello, IRECO, 1999, ISBN 9788886253093.
Cinematography
[edit]- actor in the part of himself in "Sesto Continente", 1954[8]
- Underwater shooting "Rommel's Treasure", 1955[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Il Comandante Raimondo Bucher di Alberto Romeo Archived 2006-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. HDS Notizie n.21, oct, 2001.
- ^ Doukan, Gilbert "World beneath the waves", 1957, John De Graff, New York
- ^ Luciana Civico Bucher, Fabio Vitale, "Raimondo Bucher. La vita di un pioniere degli abissi nella cronaca del suo tempo", 2011, La Mandragora Editrice, ISBN 978-8875861322
- ^ "Vita da sub", Cafiero, Gaetano, 1977 available on 'Internet archive'
- ^ Haith, Sara-Lise (September 20, 2008). "Italian Freediver Raimondo Bucher Passes Away At 96 - DeeperBlue.com". www.deeperblue.com.
- ^ Nestor, James (2014). Deep : freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-547-98552-7. OCLC 854944780 – via Google Books.
- ^ Inc, Time (November 24, 1952). "LIFE". Time Inc – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "The Sixth Continent", a feature film by Folco Quilici: https://en.unifrance.org/movie/52883/the-sixth-continent
- ^ LUCIANA CIVICO di Alberto Romeo Archived 2020-09-19 at the Wayback Machine. HDS Notizie n.25, jan, 2003.1.
- ^ "The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures", page 917 https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00kraf/page/917/mode/1up?q=%22raimondo+bucher%22+rommel
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