Štader Ivan

Ivan Štader – Adi (Mrkonjić grad (Bosnia and Hercegovina), 31 October 1941 – Lucija, 16 June 2018), model boat-builder, diver, diving instructor, co-founder and first honorary member of the Piran Divers Association (now Piran Fishing Diving Association).

He participated with the Piran Maritime Museum, predominantly as a model boat-builder. In the 1970s, three modellers, i.e. Mihael Huszar, Leopold Belec and Ivan Štader built, on the initiative of Dr Miroslav Pahor, a series of ship models of barques, bricks and schooners in the museum's model workshop, currently still on display to the public.

In 1969, Dr Pahor wrote and published the booklet Sto let slovenskega ladjarstva 1848–1941 (One Hundred Years of Slovenian Shipping 1848–1941), a fundamental work in demonstrating Slovenian activities in the Adriatic and other seas. He collected data on Slovenian shipowners who recognized, primarily in the 19th century in Trieste and Rijeka, the significance of maritime trade early enough and were willing to enter upon the risky shipping business that depended on a series of factors. This is the prime reason why he wished the Maritime Museum to acquire models of these ships.

Ivan Štader carried on with model-building. He himself also made several models of Istrian vessels as well as models of ships well known from world maritime history. One such example is the model of the Santa Maria Caravel, with which Christopher Columbus sailed west and discovered America. In Izolana, the House of the Sea in Izola, ship models are still on display, made by Ivan Štader and lent by him in 2004 for the permanent exhibition The Collection of Ship Modelling when the exhibition was being set up, while the Municipality of Izola eventually purchased them from him. These are models of the boats bragozzo, trabaccolo, two batanas, bracera and peliga, as well as of Venetian, Istrian and “chozo” cannons.

Štader had a strong link with the sea also as a diver. Although he was employed by the Mehanotehnika Toy Factory Izola and at the end of his working life as a caretaker by the Ciril Kosmač Primary School Piran, the sea remained his great love, passion and challenge at the same time. He was one of the first from the generation of diving instructors who were breaking fresh ground in the education of divers in Slovenia, as well as the first vice-president of the Slovenian Diving Association. He participated in the expansion of the network of diving clubs across the entire country and fervently engaged in underwater photography and sport fishing. As a member of the first national sport fishing team of Slovenia, which had recently gained its independence, he competed at the European Championship. He received a number of national, municipal and other awards and recognitions for his social work. The museum also holds several books on the topic of diving and sport fishing, and a diving regulator, all kept and used by Ivan Štader – Adi.

Source:

Museum photo documentation

Elen Batista Štader: In memoriam, Ivan Štader – Adi. Potapljač, 2018, št. 91, str. 21.

Prepared by: Nadja Terčon