PORT AND DIVING PARAPHERNALIA
Besides the port development and the various projects for
extension that can be considered pure historic documents,
it is interesting to observe the collection of various tools
(hooks, rasps, etc.) used by dockers in the most disparate
operations of loading and unloading.
Next to the
statistical documents relating to local marine trades from
the XVI century, you can behold historic images of the local
ports, models of tugs and harbour means of transport together
with what remains of the glorious 'Sodalizi Marittimi' (Maritime
Associations), the old Captains
Club
and the Maritime Association of Mutual Aid of Oneglia with
their worn gonfalons (standards) carrying the city's
coat-of-arms as decoration. The province of Imperia is famous
because to have equipped sailormen and Captains to the ships
of "Sorima" (Maritime Recovery Society) which have written,
with their glorious operations of wreckage underwater research
in d'EEP dephts.
The names of Artiglio, Rostro,
Rampino, Raffio have passed through the history, as
theirdivers.
The Museum is preparing an accurate
historical reconstruction of the work of these last, that
will include a display of work - overalls, headpieces, air
- tubes, pumps, torchs, and underwater cutting equipments
etc.
Near this evocative story of work in the
d'EEP of the seas, are showed two wonderful models of te
ships Artiglio and Rostro, which have in
past stuffed, with their ventures, the world maritime chronicles.
