Are there any regulators made in USA?

[tridacna]

I did say “not all”

You did not. But I've lived in the US since 1989 and to say that most Americans are parochial thinkers is a serious understatement. I taught at university here for a number of years and saw little to to suggest otherwise among my students.

 

[lexvil]

You did not. But I've lived in the US since 1989 and to say that most Americans are parochial thinkers is a serious understatement. I taught at university here for a number of years and saw little to to suggest otherwise among my students.

In Fl?

 

[USdiver1]

Most Americans are content with there being only four queens: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades. Y'all can interpret that anyway you want.

 

[NauticalNick]

I just want stuff to be made here because I believe in people having jobs. I believe that we should be self sufficient, I believe that not just scuba gear but anything should be made well enough and be serviceable with parts available (not throw away) to be sustainable in the future. We can't continue to consume and throw away, it's not sustainable. Too many things are designed to prematurely fail to keep consuming going.
I believe in high quality products that last a lifetime.
I don't like when there are 100 plus ships sitting offshore in Long Beach harbor that can't be unloaded because we are addicted to cheap crap.
I don't believe in a global economy when critical infrastructure is vulnerable. Someone always wins and someone always loses. We have been at the losing end way too long. I blame big business for selling us out and offshoring everything so they can personally stuff a few more billions into their pockets.
This never should have gotten this bad, but as long as government is addicted to campaign money from big corporate America the people will always get sold out. It's all about max profits and making shareholders happy. They consider us just mindless starving idiots that will consume whatever is put in front of us like starving dogs without us giving a rip about the origin of the goods we consume and the long term repercussions of those choices.
If there was a major world wide conflict and we were involved we would be at a serious disadvantage, especially with China. We wouldn't have any underwear socks or uniforms to wear. But as long as a few at the top are getting filthy rich who cares, right?

If America has been on the losing end, I wonder how good winning looks?!? Near the top in just about every economic metric outside of a few special situations largely driven by resources or external labour (UAE, Singapore, Luxemburg). Global influence and power which essentially entails dictating how large parts of the world are supposed to work, removing leaders at will and punishing into poverty countries not aligned with the old USA with almost no accountability to anyone. Never before has "losing so badly" seemed so good!

I'll leave it at that as I don't want things to devolve into a political mudslinging post on something that has unfortunately been made political. I agree with your points that I would like to have good stuff that I can keep forever and reduce waste but the American capitalist system discourages that. Apple, an American company, makes phones that have been proven to degrade in performance to make you buy a new one. Foxxcon has been told to make them that way and Apple has coded the phones to perform that way. I don't think goods made in the most hyper-capitalist and consumerist country in the history of the world wouldn't be made to make the most amount of money possible. While globalism is being smeared by populists that have this absurd romantic notion of industrial society, the leading economies are all service economies now, and the entire world (albeit not the planet) has benefited immensely from globalization.

 

[lowwall]

...but the American capitalist system discourages that. Apple, an American company, makes phones that have been proven to degrade in performance to make you buy a new one. Foxxcon has been told to make them that way and Apple has coded the phones to perform that way. I don't think goods made in the most hyper-capitalist and consumerist country in the history of the world wouldn't be made to make the most amount of money possible. While globalism is being smeared by populists that have this absurd romantic notion of industrial society, the leading economies are all service economies now, and the entire world (albeit not the planet) has benefited immensely from globalization.

The current American capitalist system discourages that. But that system is not inviolate. Indeed it is not the American capitalist system that existed in the '50s and '60s that many look back to as the peak of US manufacturing both in terms of quantity and quality (relative to other countries).

You can have a system that encourages sustained growth and long term thinking among both producers and consumers of goods. The answers as to how you achieve this are inherently political so I'm not going to go into it. Except to note that these answers revolve around tax policy and labor rights (hint, look at how these have changed since the '60s). Tariffs, by themselves, do nothing but drive up prices in the short term and drive down quality (by reducing competition) in the longer term.

 

[Nemrod]

I do not know of any regulators made entirely in the USA or Italy or elsewhere. I do prefer to support democracies over the alternative. Not always entirely possible or even necessarily desirable in every case. I had once though that a more interconnected world would obsolete war. Apparently not the case. Meanwhile I will get on the silver bird with my G250s and Mark 11, wherever they were made, tomorrow and hopefully go diving for a few weeks without mayhem and mishap.

Evil will not prevail. That is a quote.

 

[greeniguana]

Hang on in there sunshine the USA made a lot of money from us lot British tax payers in repayment for the loans made to us by America and Canada during World War 2. We were and still are very grateful for your help and support. But it was a loan not a free gift and we paid you back in full.

In fact it was only in December 2006 that we made the last and final payment to you. We settled our debts to you and to Canada full and final. Now in detail the money we paid back was almost double what was originally borrowed. So maybe you can cut us some slack here and consider why hit us with punitive tariffs.

Maybe you could ask Afghanistan for all that kit back you left behind for them to resell to terrorism. Just tell your commander in chief from us to cut us some slack here or we may have to plough up your golf course in Scotland and start farming food.

But then there's also that whole Sir Francis Drake and Liz thing.....

 

[iain/hsm]

Most Americans are content with there being only four queens: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts and Spades. Y'all can interpret that anyway you want.

What with all your diversity and inclusivity you forgot one
What about your queens of tarts.

 

[iain/hsm]

But then there's also that whole Sir Francis Drake and Liz thing.....

Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery in Panama.

My first job as an offshore oil rig diver was for an American outfit called Sub Sea International out of New Orleans and the cheap rate cut price sons of ***** had all us few token Brits paid in American Dollars out of some poxey bank in Panama to which most of us hadn't a clue where the heck it was and had to move our tax free loot up to the bank of Nova Scotia for fear of such diseases in such a hole of a place as Panama.

If ever you lot need another Guantanamo Bay I can recommend no finer location. And my condolences to Liz for her loss.

 

[jellycatsdad]

If you come to Monterey and ask about Nex regulators, most folks won't have nice things to say. A lot of the people in the dive scene here aren't anything more than grifters who found SCUBA as a way to sucker people out of money, and our pals at Nex fill that niche. Buddies that have worked on the regs have not been impressed. I used a set once on a "try-dive" and found them underwhelming

The owner of Monterey Bay Scuba also didn’t have nice things to say about Nex. No shop here carries them. Else, MBS/BR/Aquarius would have stocked them and repped proudly.