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The Frogwoman

The Frogwoman – Watch the full length video HERE. What image comes to mind when you think of a Frogwoman? Everyone will have their own idea, but for me ‘The Frogwoman’ can only be Russian beauty Tatjana. Standing at a statuesque 1.82 meters, with her vibrant red hair, she stuns all who meet her dressed in her classic Frogwoman attire! Skin tight rubber wetsuit, dive-knife strapped to her calf. Rubber fins on her feet, weight belt with contrasting yellow weights resting on her hips. Matching yellow and black rubber dive mask and snorkel complete the costume. She knows she looks like a dive goddess and she likes it!

The Frogwoman – Behind the Scenes

The Frogwoman
Russian dive goddess – The Frogwoman

The work day started incredibly early. In order to catch the first morning sun, Tatjana and I arrived at the location at 5am, it was still dark. While I carried all the gear down to the lake, Tatjana slipped into her very tight wetsuit. Shivering in the fresh and dewy morning air, she carefully made her way down the sharp rocks and into position just as the sun rose over the hillside. Bathed in a glorious warm golden light, she slipped her cold feet into a pair of neoprene socks. We briefly paused shooting just to appreciate the beauty of the moment, a moment even more intense for me as just seeing Tatjana standing dressed as she was, curves and bumps glistening in the sunlight was like being in an erotic dream!

On a shoot I am normally fully preoccupied with just making sure I capture all of the footage and photos needed. I don’t get a chance to just stop and admire the beautiful women standing in front of me through anything other than the viewfinder of my camera. Sometimes I wish I could just sit back and watch the girls and not be worrying about whether the shot is in focus or the audio is being recorded!

Once we had wrapped this sequence, it was straight back up to the car so Tatjana could warm up before the next take. The passenger seat in my car has been host to many neoprene covered bottoms over the years!

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Frogwoman Anna – Old and New HD Video Update

Frogwoman Anna – Old and New HD Video Update. See the full length video https://www.hapwater.com/videos

After squeezing herself into the tightest vintage sharkskin drysuit, Frogwoman Anna is all geared up in her authentic retro dive equipment. With a Fenzy BCD, sharkskin neoprene gloves and oval dive mask. However, not everything is as vintage as seen. The Mistral twin-hose regulator may look as if it came straight out of the 1960s, but it’s new and offers all of the reliability and safety expected from modern day diving equipment.

If you would like to own the rare ScubaPro drysuit worn by Anna, it’s available HERE.

Shooting Frogwoman Anna in the snow!

Frogwoman Anna poses for the camera during our video shoots together
Frogwoman Anna posing during our video shoot together.

We had no idea when we made our initial filming plan, that on the day of the shoot it was going to be so unbelievably cold! The night before, it started snowing and the mercury plummeted. It was still snowing when we arrived at the lake the following morning.

The first job is always the same, carry all of the heavy gear down to the lakeshore. Back breaking work, but on a morning like this it’s a great way to keep warm. Next, Anna needed to get into the suit. This is always a struggle when girls with long hair meet drysuits, but the vintage ScuabaPro suit is on another level of difficult!

Because it was so cold, she decided it would be best to try and suit-up in the car. After getting her feet into the booties, Anna pulled the suit up to her waist, first left arm in, followed quickly by the right. So far so good. Now she only needed to slide her head through a tight neck seal and into the attached hood before zipping the suit closed.

Manufactured from 8mm shark-skin neoprene, the suit doesn’t really stretch. Curvy Anna was definitely going to fill it very snugly, leaving absolutely no wiggle room. Try as she might, she just couldn’t get her head under the neck seal. Climbing out of the car, she tried again, hopping, pulling, stretching, yanking, grunting. With all of the straining she wasn’t feeling cold anymore! After what seemed like an eternity, there was a loud pop and a squeal of delight as her head finally slid into the hood and she could zip seal the suit tightly closed!

Temperature Control

Frogwoman Anna in her ScubaPro drysuit getting cold
“Come on! I’m getting cold while you fiddle with that camera!”

If there is one constant in my life, it’s that the girls are either unbelievably hot or incredibly cold when we’re shooting. I have lost count of the times I’ve had to stop filming so they can go and sit in my car with the heating or AC on full blast! However, today was clearly going to be full of hot-water bottles, blankets, quilted clothing and warm mugs of coffee… Not just for Anna, but for me too!

I hope you like reading about the fun we have behind the scenes. Please leave a comment if you’d like to see more posts of this style in the future.

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Maria Perschy in a rubber suit!

Maria Perschy poses for promotional pictures in the tightest of rubber suits!
Maria Perschy poses for promotional pictures in the tightest of rubber suits!

Browsing Ebay, I stumbled across a contact sheet of photos of an unknown woman in a black rubber suit. Upon closer inspection it became clear that this was the Austrian actress Maria Perschy. In the classic film “Man’s Favorite Sport” (1964) Maria Perschy stars together with Paula Prentis and Rock Hudson. The film finds the two ladies snorkelling together in the tightest of rubber suits!

Watching this pair of beautiful women awkwardly exit the lake in their flippers and swim caps. They stand and talk together, with rubber clad bodies still dripping wet, masks and snorkels perched on their rubber capped heads. A short sequence maybe, but one that has left an impression on me that survives until today.

Making it onto my list of top films, “Man’s Favorite Sport” still wields a considerable influence upon my creative output!

Maria Perschy poses for promotional pictures in the tightest of rubber suits!
I wanna be the guy in the bottom left photo!

Over the coming months I’ll be posting all of the pictures on my blog. Don’t forget to come back often to see more of Maria posing in her lovely rubber suit!

Man’s Favorite Sport Synopsis – Roger Willoughby is considered to be a leading expert on sports fishing. He’s written books on the subject and is loved by his customers in the sporting goods department at Abercrombie and Fitch, where he works. There’s only one problem however: he’s never been fishing in his life. When the store owner enters him in a fishing contest, mayhem ensues. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058324/mediaviewer/rm179620097/

Paula Prentiss & Maria Peschy - Man's Favorite Sport - 1964
Paula Prentiss & Maria Peschy – Man’s Favorite Sport – 1964

Do you like swim caps? Read my about my love for vintage petal swim caps.

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French Frogwoman – SCUBA Reality update Sep. 2021

Beautiful French Frogwoman beach action! SCUBA Reality updated for September 2021. See the full update here. https://www.hapwater.com/archive.php?area=1&preview

Beautiful French Frogwoman - SCUBA Reality update Sep. 2021
SCUBA Reality 2021 Update – French Frogwoman

Just look at this, wow, she’s just washed up on the beach. A gorgeous French Frogwoman, covered from head to toe in her smooth rubbery wetsuit. Exhausted after a long dive she sits in the surf with the sun warming her black neoprene covered skin, as sand forms complex shapes around her legs and flippers. You can see more of her in the September update! But that’s not all! Check out the first part of a two part 4K video featuring Frogwoman Anne. Watch this lovely German Frogwoman as she struggles to get out of her heavy neoprene dry suit!

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What Motivates Me?

For those of you who don’t know anything about me, let me tell you of some of the things that inspire and motivate my work.

Vintage SCUBA women inspire my work
Code 7… Victim 5 (1964)

I’ve been taking pictures of beautiful Frogwomen since the late 1980s! Originally with a film camera and now a DSLR. Influenced by films from the 1960s and 70s where beautiful women would wear tight form fitting rubber wetsuits, almost always combined with twin-hose regulators and oval dive masks. Not afraid to look sexy in their smooth beavertail wetsuits, with fashionable petal bathing caps protecting their long hair, a vision of these powerful women was burnt brightly into my then young impressionable imagination!

Some of the films that have inspired me: Man’s Favorite Sport, Code 7… Victim 5, James Bond (particularly Thunderball), Fantastic Voyage

As modern diving equipment has evolved it has become much safer and more comfortable to use, but for me at least, it has lost the pure and simple attraction of the vintage gear.

It has long been my goal to revisit those more innocent years, when SCUBA diving was an extraordinary and exciting activity for a young woman, where the diving suits and equipment accentuated the female form. In conclusion, I present to you my life work…

If you like your Frogwomen in rubber, check this out – Maria Perschy in a rubber suit!

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