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Hello, my name is Hector Inga, owner of Lane Four swim shop. I've been asked to talk to
you about who invented swimming goggles. Well, swimming goggles were invented back in the
nineteen-thirties by a gentleman by the name of Guy Gilpatrick, a gentleman from France
who was also a diver. The diving goggle that he was using were derived from swimming goggles
and he was the inventor, and mainly meant to keep the salt water out of their eyes while
they were doing their dives. Also back in the thirteen hundreds, some Persian golfers
invented some goggles made out of the outer shell of tortoises, and that was a beginning,
however, the guy that perfected them, Guy Gilpatrick, in nineteen thirty, and of course,
from there, they were a just...the, it just changed swimming because you were able to
keep water in your eyes. You were able to see where you were going, to see the beauty
of the fish, the beauty of the ocean, and he would be proud of what his invention has
created because there are just some real high technical goggles now a days. Technical goggles,
they're recreational goggles for beginners and for advanced swimmers.