Need help finding & identifying these vintage scuba items

[swgino]

That is a cool find.

I'm still hoping someone here will end up messaging me that they have one they can sell me or know someone who can.

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[ffhamm]

The wire pack looks like an early SCOTT SCBA pack. For firefighting or industrial air supply.

Jeff

 

[captain]

The wire pack looks like an early SCOTT SCBA pack. For firefighting or industrial air supply.

Jeff

Agree, I worked at a company that used the Scott scba and that looks like what we had.

 

[John C. Ratliff]

Hello.
I've been looking for these items for ages, but it never occurred to me to come to a scuba forum and ask the experts.

All 3 of these items are definitely pre-1980 as a point of reference. Probably mid seventies.

I'm really hoping someone here can point me in the right direction for the following items. One of the items, I know exactly what it is, I just need someone to sell me one (or two). The other two items, I also need identified as well.

Item #1
Techinsub Pulce 40 speargun

Item #2
Scuba boots, booties?
They might look a bit different as I think the ones in this pic have been re-colored (and possibly maybe even had the soles replaced).

Item #3
Scuba oxygen tank harness.
I'm looking for this exact model. Sorry, best pic I have.

If anyone has any of these items for sale, or can help identify the second two items, please email me at gino@columbus.rr.com
I feel like I'm looking for a needle in a haystack, so hopefully someone here can come through.

Thanks for taking a look.
Gino

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Gino,

Your best bet for that style harness is a WWII surplus store. I have seen photos that are very close to what you show, but all those harnesses were home-made. The book, dive, the complete book of skin diving by Rick and Barbara Carrier (Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1957) has an article which shows how to make a scuba harness from Army surplus equipment. They basically took a WWII Army rucksack frame and mounted a tank onto it. The tanks shows look to be 38 cubic foot tanks, and they were used in an RKO Pictures film which starred Jane Russell and one other Hollywood name, who's face I recognize but I cannot pull out the name. Anyway, it is shown in the chapter titled "Build It Yourself." I'll try scanning it to show here.

SeaRat

 

[John C. Ratliff]

Gino,

Take a look and see what you think:

These are the instructions for making the scuba backpack out of the US Army Surplus rucksack frame.

Here is the other page, demonstrating the backpack in use for the movie that Jane Russell starred in.

I'm not sure whether this is from Underwater or not:

http://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2009/02/world-blog-archive-shark-bloggers.html

Actually, it appears that it is, and the co-star is Gilbert Rowland.

http://www.amazon.com/Underwater-VHS-Jane-Russell/dp/6301278445

The one you want may also be from a Scott Hydro-Pak, as stated above. But they don't look quite the same, and I don't have a good photo of the pack itself.

SeaRat

 

[John C. Ratliff]

Here are the first two pages of that chapter, showing Jane Russell and the backpack again, along with the home-made ladder (actually, probably made by Hollywood craftsmen).

From dive, the complete book of skin diving by Rick and Barbara Carrier (Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1957)

SeaRat

 

[swgino]

Wow. Thanks for that.

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[ctdiver2]

your bac-pac pic resembles the early mountaineering o2 bottle holders used for high altitude climbing ex. edmond hillery

 

[swgino]

I searched but couldn't find any images.

 

[John C. Ratliff]

Here's the history of the US Army WWII rucksack.

"+US Army Rucksack History+"

There is one from WWII on sale now on e-bay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-WWII-US...rkparms=65:12|66:3|39:1|72:1205|293:1|294:100

SeaRat