Double hose manufacturers

[sealark]

No Issues under the ice but if you come up and the regulator comes out of the water the diafram can freeze. It happened to me on the old DA in New London CT, Groten town beach 1966 night diving for lobsters. middle of winter came up on beach took a breath and it continued to free flow until air was turned off and back in the water it worked again. I think the air was in the 20s, Wet suits would freeze walking from water to vehicle. Young and bullet proof. Lobsters were solid frozen after walking 50 feet.

 

[rhwestfall]

the same can happen on a single hose. in ice diving, you are to not surface breathe the regs due to them freezing...

 

[Tug]

the same can happen on a single hose. in ice diving, you are to not surface breathe the regs due to them freezing...

Yup, not just a double hose issue. I'll take a few breaths to test them when they first come out of my warm car but after that, no breathing until I'm in the water.

 

[sealark]

Yes I know haven't had and don't want to have a chance to check a single hose out. It doesn't get cold enough here in Florida. I'll take your word for it. Yes I know there is a glycerin cap to prevent the freezing or at least there was.

 

[wwunder]

This is an interesting thread. I bought one of VDH's double hose explorer kits (rebuilt DA) a few years ago and had some fun diving it. I recall having some good and not so good feelings about it and went away from using it. The thing is I can't get my head around spending the cash to upgrade it with the HPR, phoenix or cyclone, DSV and DBE just to see if I like it enough to dive it regularly.

Maybe one day i'll get lucky and bump into someone with a fixed up one I can try out.

 

[archer1960]

This is an interesting thread. I bought one of VDH's double hose explorer kits (rebuilt DA) a few years ago and had some fun diving it. I recall having some good and not so good feelings about it and went away from using it. The thing is I can't get my head around spending the cash to upgrade it with the HPR, phoenix or cyclone, DSV and DBE just to see if I like it enough to dive it regularly.

Maybe one day i'll get lucky and bump into someone with a fixed up one I can try out.

I'm in the market for a new reg anyway, so this is just another option for me to investigate. I don't know anyone who dives one, though.

 

[Tug]

I'm in the market for a new reg anyway, so this is just another option for me to investigate. I don't know anyone who dives one, though.

One of the designers of the Kraken lives in Maine (@Luis H) and there are a few of us in Mass. if you're ever up in MA, shoot myself or @macado a PM.

 

[archer1960]

One of the designers of the Kraken lives in Maine (@Luis H) and there are a few of us in Mass. if you're ever up in MA, shoot myself or @macado a PM.

Cool; thanks for the offer!

 

[sealark]

They will take getting use to especially after breathing a single hose regulator. In my case there was no choice the Double hose was all that was available when I started diving. They are great and safe regulators. And the people have put a lot of time into Improvements. Get one and give it a little time and you will get to like it. Time for me to just drift off this topic.

 

[Sam Miller III]

sealarkBarracuda
# of Dives: 5,000 - ∞
Location: Pensacola Fl.

They will take getting use to especially after breathing a single hose regulator. In my case there was no choice the Double hose was all that was available when I started diving. They are great and safe regulators. And the people hve put a lot of time into Improvements. Get one and give it a little time and you will get to like it. Time for me to just drift
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I,. I congratulate you on 5000 plus dives --it is a life time of diving but can be accomplished . As you have no doubt noticed there are many posters on this board who live in the snow bound hinterlands have been diving for 3 years on summer vacations and do not log dives, yet according to their info page have astronomical number of dives listed
Sir, I suspect that you are one who truly has made 5000 recorded dives

2, I do not know your dive history but a little single hose diving regulator genealogy seems appropriate
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1956 Rose Pro standard -several models introduced - ceases production in 1960
1957 US Diver (French Made) Aquamatic
1959 Sportsways Waterlung ( with bright red hoses-- interesting )
1960 Healthways SCUBAIR series introduced ( a number of models)
1961 US Diver Calypso -- this was the regulator used on Keller's 1000 foot dive at Catalina
(and there are several others I have omitted as being late bloomers into the market place )

During that period and even before there was considerable experimentation to develop a simple reliable bullet proof singe hose regulator generally based on a welding regulator as the first stage. In SoCal ER Cross developed and dived a single hose regulator in 1951 but never placed in on the market. In then isolated Australia a gentleman developed a single hose regulator the "Porpoise" which was marketed for several years-- well up into the 1960s

For a number of years apparently the US Navy and numerous training organization shied away from the single hose regulator for a variety of reasons - some personal some technical ..........

Therefore I strongly suspect you did not dive or even made aware of the single hose regulator in your USN training

Since it is Veteran's Day 2016 I salute you for your service to our country The United States of America

Samuel Miller,
Captain USAF -Korean War

Pensacola ?? there is a large shop in your town on a major highway that we visited several summers ago-- Had a very knowledgeable female NAUI instructor who showed Betty and I around the shop.....Very Impressive ..I sent her a care package of information ---Per sir Robert "A promise made is a debt unpaid ..." sdm