INVITATION TO THE NORDIC HISTORICAL DIVING RALLY 2017
IN AND AROUND LARKOLLEN NEAR MOSS on the 24th to 27th of August
Open also to Non Nordic participants
Stein Stavdal Paulsens private diving museum Larkollen
This is the main venue for eating and lectures Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Due to a different event at the hotel they have very few rooms available. Stein has contact with different private houses that can put up participants. He also has contact with the local camping place and their cabins.
So for accommodation you have to contact Stein Stavdal Paulsen steinsp@online.no with your preferred choice.
Program
THURSDAY 24th August
For those interested in Norwegian wartime history, we have arranged a guided tour at Oscarsborg fortress in Drøbaksundet starting out on the island at 15:00. It was the guns and torpedoes from this fortress that sank the German Battlecruiser “Blücher”, and halted the invasion of Oslo on the 9th of April 1940, and thus allowed the king, parliament and government to escape. Some of us have booked accommodation in the fortress and will stay overnight. http://www.oscarsborghotel.no Further information about this part of the program from bwkahrs@online.no This part of the program is an option.
FRIDAY 25th August
11:00 Opening of the rally and the diving part at Norsk Yrkesdykkerskole (NYD) at Fagerstrand. www.nyd.no Diving with old equipment provided by the participants. We hope to have the Triewald bell from Finland there. NYD is a commercial diver training establishment.
Lunch at NYD
16:00 Transport to Larkollen and the different places of accommodation.
19:00 Prawns galore in part of Steins museum located in an old chapel called Emmaus. You can bring your own drinks (BOB Bring your Own Bottle) A limited amount of drinks for sale.
SATURDAY 26th August
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast at Emmaus due to limited cooking facilities at the different places of accommodation. Must be finished and cleared up before 10:00.
10:00 Official opening of the rally by the chairman of the Rygge municipality and our chairman Stein Stavdal Paulsen.
10:15 Early diving in Norway with emphasis on the bell diving in Kilstrømmen in 1672 by Bjørn W. Kahrs
10:45 The most northerly dive in standard (hard hat) gear in the world by Dag Nævestad from the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo.
11:15 Coffee or tea break.
11:45 Diving at Kalstø, the landing site for a pipeline on the west coast of Norway. The biggest inshore diving job in Norway, by Kai Olsen the diving manager of this project.
12:30 Lunch.
13:30 Ottestad Breathing Systems. Developing breathing equipment for deep diving by Nils T. Ottestad.
14:00 The history of the Viking diving suit. Speaker to be named.(STBN)
14:30 Coffee or tea break.
15:00 Larkollen and its (maritime) history. STBN
15:30 Our naval hero Tordenskjold and his relation to diving by Bjørn W. Kahrs
15:45 The history of Norwegian hyperbaric medicine and deep saturation diving by Kåre Segadal:
16:15 The analysis of the air samples from the sunken Russian submarine “Kursk” by Kåre Segadal.
16:30 The official opening of the new extension of Stein Stavdal Paulsen’s diving museum. Time to look at this part of his collection.
19:00 Seafood cold buffet at the chapel Emmaus. You can bring your own drinks (BOB Bring your Own Bottle). A limited amount of drinks for sale.
SUNDAY 27th August
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast at Emmaus due to limited cooking facilities at the different places of accommodation. Must be finished and cleared up before 10:00.
10:00 Departure for Moss and the ferry across the Oslofjord to Horten. Ferry leaves approx. every half hour. Walk from the ferry to the Navy Museum.
Approx. 12:00 Guided tour of the museum and lecture about the museum.
14:00 Light lunch and end of rally.
Return to Moss for trains to Oslo or airport bus to Oslo Airport Gardermoen.
Price of rally. Limited to NOK 1000,- for food (coffee or tea, breakfast, lunch and evening meal), ferry to Horten and entrance to the Navy Museum to be paid on arrival in Larkollen. Accommodation and drinks to be paid individually.
Registration to post@dykkehistorisk.no or bwkahrs@online.no
For accommodation to steinsp@online.no