Check this vintage ad out...

[dead dog]

As far as thermal protection what would you say this shorty provides?

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A good eyeful. lol

 

[Green Frog]

I’d say that ad was purely to attract guys who might buy gear. She wouldn’t be diving long before that eye makeup made her look like a raccoon. The zipper goes higher but the hair would probably get in the way. As is, cold water would be a very unpleasant surprise! Glad she has a dive knife on her right thigh to defend herself from predators.

 

[scubadada]

WTF, she's walking her baby Tiger Shark.

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Equipment was sure loose back in the day.

 

[CT-Rich]

Equipment was sure loose back in the day.

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those hoses were filled with air as was half of the regulator can.

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

I was thinking how loose her tank Is.

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Anyone have an idea how old this is? Made in Japan.

 

[dead dog]

Back in the 1960s, many of the regulators didn't even feature an HP port, such as the early Poseidon Cyklon models, which only had a single LP port for a second stage.

Instead, a double reserve manifold from Aqua-Sport / Poseidon was offered which had a then-radical feature, for its time -- an HP port (seen in last photo) where a new-fangled and a quite expensive SPG, for its its time, could be added . . .

Would love to see the tanks attached to this valve.

 

[dead dog]

Still, the idea was a good one. It was redundancy in its earliest stage I guess. I know of another 'weird' contraption, which would have been quite good I think : an SPG readable front the front and above. So your buddy could read it, as well as yourself. It was fitted on an early French scuba, the "Poumon d'Eau" (i.e aqua-lung ever heard of that one ? lol), designed by Georges Herail, in the 50s, in Toulouse (S-W France, nowadays home the Airbus plane). Here's a picture (said SPG on the left).

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Link to a full article about the Poumon d'eau (in French only, sorry, but I don't know of any documentation in English about this scuba)

Where do they exhale?

 

[Bigbella]

Would love to see the tanks attached to this valve.

This image was from earlier in this thread . . .