Jacqueline Bissett's reg?

[Charlie99]

The reg looks extra tiny next to such big ..... ...... .... mask.

 

[busraider1]

regulator??... Who's looking at that..

 

[Moogyboy]

It seems like a pretty unconventional design; I have no idea what this servo-assisted business means. For a movie of that period I would have expected the usual big chrome US Divers or Scubapro second stage.

Any way you look at it, that is a TINY second stage. It has all the more modern downsized regs beat by a mile, and by at least 15 years. Must have been a good piece of gear too, if they trusted it to keep a major movie star alive.

cheers

Billy S.

 

[captain]

No personal experience with it but I heard it was junk.

 

[Turtleguy9]

I believe Nick Nolte was diving a Spinnaker in the movie. Jaquline Bisset was divng a Piel
regulator, marketed and imported by Richards Aqualung Center, Times Square New York.
Aloha Turtleguy

 

[JES]

I believe Nick Nolte was diving a Spinnaker in the movie. Jaquline Bisset was divng a Piel
regulator, marketed and imported by Richards Aqualung Center, Times Square New York.
Aloha Turtleguy

Turtleguy is correct in his identification of these regulators.

 

[jochen]

Turtleguy is correct in his identification of these regulators.

Yes Turtleguy is correct, Nick Nolte use the Italy made GSD Spinnaker and Jacqueline Bisett the Piel M300 made in France. These regs are today very rare to find and a good example of sophisticated european dive-tec of the 70th years. This regs you can show at this nice french site with, sorry, poor pics:
http://www.detendeursanciens.com/gsd2.htm
http://www.detendeursanciens.com/piel2.htm
I use a GSD Spinnaker sometimes in freshwater dives, it's not a junk reg, he is different to other regs but everytime a good dive experiance.

Greetings from Germany

 

[ScubaTexan]

Didn't Treece (Robert Shaw) use an FFM attached to a hookah on one of the salvage dives?

 

[DA Aquamaster]

Yes, it's been a while since I have seen them...I mean it...in the movie but I am pretty sure it was an old Desco FFM.

You can still get one.

http://www.divedesco.com/masks.htm

 

[Thalassamania]

GSD is the brand. That particular reg, I have one out in the garage, was rather a nice pilot actuated servo controlled device with excellent breathing characteristics and a pain in the butt bubble moustache.

Now morning, I've gone out to the garage. Easier to edit then make a new post. It's a GSD S-300, comes in a neat plastic attaché case.