Scubapro Classic backplate????

[willywonka]

Anyone have some info. on this old backplate?
Kinda interesting to me. Any info. would be cool. Thanks

 

[Seraphimx]

Does a wing go attached to it or do you have to wear a Horse-Collar BC with that ?
Looks like the Old sherwood wings I used to learn to dive first at school.

...those were....old.

nope cant help

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[DJ Johnny Mac]

We have a few of those at the shop I work at. We used to rent them... long before my time. Our resident diver still uses one. He does not use a wing or air cell of any kind. Don't think I have ever seen him in a BC. According to him, he only needs weight to get down and then back up. He removes his weights at around 30ft and is neutral.

 

[Bonairetrip]

In the early to mid 1970s, these were called backpacks. They were pretty comfortable and held the tank well. I know USD and SP both had models.

There is no aircell per se. They were typically used with a horse collar BC. For example, the hot one in my market was a Fenzy although I had a USD. I suspect before that they were often used w/o a BC.

 

[Darnold9999]

Leaned to dive in one, used a horse collar BC in the late 70's. They can be broken, I managed to break mine somehow. Made for an interesting dive. New steel ones are just as comfortable and don't break.

 

[vladimir]

We have a few of those at the shop I work at. We used to rent them... long before my time. Our resident diver still uses one. He does not use a wing or air cell of any kind. Don't think I have ever seen him in a BC. According to him, he only needs weight to get down and then back up. He removes his weights at around 30ft and is neutral.

What does he do with them after he removes them?

 

[drbill]

Used one like that on the left in the late 1960's and 1970's. As has been pointed out, no wing per se. Most of us didn't use a horse collar with them. We just weighted ourselves more accurately and swam them down until wetsuit compression took over. I didn't dive with a real BCD until 1989.

 

[halocline]

It looks amazingly similar to the plastic plate on my old SP jacket BC. I've taken the jacket off (two bolts) and tried to figure out how I could attach a wing to it. A travel wing almost lines up so that the single cam strap would make it through the lower slots.

 

[Gilldiver]

I'd place it in the mid 70's or so. As for BC's, that was the era of the horse collar but many divers did without a BC when using a drysuit. The round buttons in the middle and the bottom are so you could drill it out to take a set of doubles. I used a plastic pack like this with a Dive Rite classic wing sandwiched between it and the tanks for many years. I still have one that I made up with a cam buckle to hold a 40 for my kids to use in the pool.

 

[james croft]

I still use them and so do some US Navy divers with a horsecollars. I have Scubapro, US Divers and Dacor models. With a steel 72 you can probably get by without a BC unless you put on a thick neoprene suit or drysuit.. I have a bunch of them. Plus the "modern" SS and Aluminum backplates. Not to mention the fiberglass US Divers & Voit Snugpacks which date a dit earlier.
Get a double hose rig and dive it.