anybody heard of SUBGEAR (a poseidon jetstream clone)?

[Hemlon]

Never heard of it.

 

[Jorgen Nilsson]

Geeze, now I don't feel so bad about not having seen one before; at only 100 made, that critter belongs in the Smithsonian (or at least diving in freshwater).
Fill us in again on how to decipher the serial number into "year made"?
Hey Jörgen, did I ever send any pics of this bad boy?

That reg looks very well kept! Actually it looks better then the one we have in our "museeum"...

Deciphering our serial numbers are easy ... On a new Jetstream it will look like this:

3790 701859

- First four digits is the article number of the regulator
- The last 6 digits is the serial number.


The "7" shows what year it was made (2007) and the rest of the numbers tells that it was the 1895:th Jetstream manufactured that year.

 

[Dave McLean]

A few Years after....Soniform was an OEM manufacturer that made a large number of the branded BCs in the diving industry. They were based out of El Cajon (San Diego) CA. SubGear, Seaform and X-Tek were brands they rolled out into the international market, starting of course with Buoyancy compensators. Year two of the successful roll out the line was expanded to include regulators, BCs, Computers and gauges. The Poseidon group OEM'd the Jetstream regulator as the SubGear regulator. After launch of the line, and with less than 50 units of the regulator around, Johnson Outdoors (holder of the Scubapro brand) acquired Soniform. SubGear products were put on hold and the X-Tek brand was repurposed for a short period as the S-Tech line of BCs. SubGear was recently reconstituted and will be used in a rebranding effort.

If you have any Sub Gear equipment consider it very rare indeed!

Dave McLean