I just found a bag of stuff in my attic.
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David Wilson
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It is. Beuchat Sub is a French underwater equipment manufacturer with a long pedigree. Original owner Georges Beuchat patented the Jet Fin, which Scubapro bought up and released its famous and enduring open-heel version of the design. CDE may stand for China Diving Enterprise Co, a Taiwanese company whose current fins can be viewed at cdmax
Nemrod Delta regulator from Nemrod 1972 catalogue:
As for your "Neptune" fins, I found the following picture a year or so ago:
Compare it with your "Neptune" fins below:
The logos look similar, don't they? If so, the provenance is indeed China Diving Enterprise (CDE) in Taiwan and the fins won't be very old, although they are all-rubber.
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I got some more info on the stuff. I found a DLRG BONN sign in the vest. So I called up my mother who's German and apparently it's my mother's stuff lol. She just never realised she still had it. She used to dive for the DLRG in Germany and used to do alot of stuff rescue-diving in the Rhine it the late 70's and early 80's. That explains the 15mm suit lol. She hasn't dove in over 30 years so they have to be from early to mid 80's I guess? She couldn't help me on the rest of the gear except that she said the nemrod was a piece of **** and the other ones should still be functional.
David Wilson
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I'll leave further discussion of the regulators to others, as I don't use SCUBA when I dive.
It's perfectly possible that the fins are from the 70s or 80s, particularly as they are all-rubber over against more recent composite models with plastic blades. There's very little online about it, but both Malaysia and Taiwan would have been the target countries at the time for the outsourced manufacture of basic diving gear such as masks and fins and I think we've already established that "China Diving Enterprise" (CDE) of Taiwan was the likely manufacturer of your fins.
It's good to hear about the provenance of your diving gear discovery as it not only helps to date the stuff but also provides interesting anecdotal supporting detail. Fascinating that it belonged to your mother when she served in the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft on the Rhine back then.
It's perfectly possible that the fins are from the 70s or 80s, particularly as they are all-rubber over against more recent composite models with plastic blades. There's very little online about it, but both Malaysia and Taiwan would have been the target countries at the time for the outsourced manufacture of basic diving gear such as masks and fins and I think we've already established that "China Diving Enterprise" (CDE) of Taiwan was the likely manufacturer of your fins.
It's good to hear about the provenance of your diving gear discovery as it not only helps to date the stuff but also provides interesting anecdotal supporting detail. Fascinating that it belonged to your mother when she served in the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft on the Rhine back then.
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David,
There were two models of the Aquilon which were imported by US Divers for evaluation and testing in the early 1960s.
Both regulator's were difficult breathers and needed considerable improvement. They were modified for the American market One became the US Divers Calypso and the other the built proof Conshelf .
Of note and great interest is the hoses clamp attachment for the hoses . I was informed that method was a preferred method by JYCs Calypso crew, but never verified... it is probably too late now .
I was doing some contract work for US Divers in Santa Ana at the time and ended up with both models to dive, I was not required to return so they were packed away and are still packed away. Time to unpack and place on e bay.
I have also packed up my Lilywhite's dive catalogs-never thought I would ever need them, But I do have a 1967 German HOZE catalog in which the Aquion is listed on page 46 and it the subsequent pages Healthways and SCUBA pro.
Sam Miller,111
regulator bj
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Just a footnote to David Wilson and Sam Miller postings the "Aquilon" Regulator was in "Spiros" catalogues from 1963 through to 1976 
john68
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The Mecki fins look to me to be hand-made blades for long distance open water finswimming. They were known as "bi-fins" in CMAS circles, and had a fiberglass blade made from printed circuit boaRd fiberglass which had some layers removed to customize the blade's flexibility.
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John C. Ratliff, Finswimming Director
Underwater Society of America, 1980s
ScubaJill
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I've actually asked my mother about the scubapro and she told me it's the last reg she used for ''regular diving''. Apparently she would use full face masks for under water work(bolting and fixing stuff). It's supposed to be an mk5 according to her? She said it was really expensive when she bought it and it's the last reg she ever bought (1978). She also told me she should have a double hose mistral !and and some old 1970's drysuit lying around. Will post it as soon as I find them.
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