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Joseph Medur-Kit - born in Bjelovar 10th December 1918. year. He died in Rijeka 28.XII.2003. where he spent his working and retirement years of service. In Tuesday, the 30th December 2003. , on the day in Mali Losinj maintained a traditional cup of cities in spear-fishing, a small group of relatives and friends greeted him at the last rest in his hometown shipyard. Joseph Medur initiator of the competition and a lifetime honorary president of the Croatian Diving Association. Joseph Medura all friends affectionately called Kit because of its deep and loud breathing. Born in Bjelovar 10th December 1918. years where he attended elementary school and then in Zagreb and Prague gained a degree of construction engineers. Love the sea and the technical novelties curiosity led him to start practicing water sports but for my first vacation on the sea with her parents and resorts of the Adriatic guard. Immediately after the II. Light. War by its leading position in the river and from then onwards his life closely associated with offshore activities. With a group of friends enthusiasts, technical specialists and innovators began to construct and produce a diving mask, fins, underwater rifles, underwater housings for photographic and film equipment and other diving equipment. Among the first in our records under the surface, and the first underwater film our smmio still 1950th year. As early sixties produced at the Center for Underwater Research in Rijeka four models of air guns which Medur ing signs of authorship. These guns are then represented in the world of technological wonder. Visionary Medur Joseph was among the founders of the Alliance ribolovavca Adriatic in Split 1953rd The organizer and participant of the first competition in underwater fishing and the first menu raprezentacije state that in 1956. was performed at the European championships in underwater fishing in Bastia in Corsica. The development of knowledge of SCUBA diving equipment begins to construct and draw up and dive apparatus open and closed-circuit their own structures. Author's first book on underwater fishing "Underwater fishing in the Adriatic" 1958th vol. Dealing with the journalistic work published in various journals, a number of professional articles on populamih spear fishing and scuba diving. He was a founder and longtime editor of "More". In the Adriatic League sport fishermen, who later repeatedly changed its name, Kit's Secretary since 1957. vol. until his retirement in 1984th vol. From the first days of existence, the League was his soul, brains and driving force. Persuaded Croat and anti-communist years is offset on the edge of his dismissal. The fact is that our former Union was the only sport or some other Yugoslav federation, which has had its headquarters outside of Belgrade. Kit is skillfully resisted the persistent attempts of militarization of the League and all the while he was working in him, he managed to keep the institution of sports, technical education, amateurism, and concerns about the underwater world. Joseph Medur and internationally have done a lot for the development of diving and diving sport. He participated in the congress utemeljiteljskog CMAS, International Confederation of Underwater Activities, in January 1959, in Monte Carlo. At the meeting he was elected member of the Executive Bureau when he was elected president of celebrities Jacques Yves Cousteau. In the Executive Committee of CMAS and worked Medur Joseph twenty years, thirty years he worked as president of its Commission for spearfishing and President of the Sports Committee. Honored with a life membership Savejta CMAS and one of the few holders of "gold medals and CMAS. Croatian Diving Association was founded in November 1992nd vol. elected him as its honorary president for life. During his lifetime he decided his extensive collection of documentation and equipment leave the facility to be professionally processed and perezentirati public. The heirs of Mr. Medura HRS and continue working on it.