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[HowardE]

I've seen nothing indicating that whatever person or persons posting as "beaverdivers" is even a diver.

I've met Casey, and seen him dive. He is a diver.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

But in reality many of the Healthways and Scubapro regs were the exact same inside, only the outside looked a bit different.

Look at some of the Beuchat second stages of that era - they are exactly like Scubapro, but with slightly different trim packages. Beuchat is another old company and one of the very few manufacturers that actually manufacture everyone else's designs.

Sherwood, Beuchat, Aqualung and Tabata are the major players in what is a very small OEM scuba regulator and valve market.

 

[elan]

look at some of the beuchat second stages of that era - they are exactly like scubapro, but with slightly different trim packages. Beuchat is another old company and one of the very few manufacturers that actually manufacture everyone else's designs.

Sherwood, beuchat, aqualung and tabata are the major players in what is a very small oem scuba regulator and valve market.

ods ?

 

[Fishpie]

Old Cressi Sub regs were remarkably similar too.

 

[Paladin]

Many would say that Sherwood is the best and oldest brand out there.
As I remember Scubapro sprouted up out of Healthways back in the early to mid 60's and was self touted as the "Proffesional Line". They held up a fabricated mystique that their regs were way too specialized and advanced for just anybody to work on so the whole dealer only can work on them and no parts to the public were born. But in reality many of the Healthways and Scubapro regs were the exact same inside, only the outside looked a bit different.

Sherwood is actually the oldest reg company out there. Believe it or not Sherwood is even older than Aqualung in a way. They were the ones that made the original first stage for the Aqualung based on a welding gas regulator design - the adjustable diaphram. Later Aqualung made their own but the basic concept was all Sherwood.
They are still around and make one of the premier ice diving regs out there. They also have made a lot of other stuff for different industries as well.

I wasn't aware that Sherwood was a French company or that Emile Gagnan worked for them. Learn something new every day.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I wasn't aware that Sherwood was a French company or that Emile Gagnan worked for them. Learn something new every day.

I don't think they (Sherwood) were French, but I was told that the French contracted out or at least used the gas regulation design as a starting point to design their first scuba reg.
Sherwoods inert gas regs very likely were being used in France at the time for welding and other flamable gasses an that's supposedly what they used to make their first prototypes.

 

[Paladin]

I suppose the French bought the valves before the start of WWII, since Cousteau and Gagnan developed the system right under the noses of the German occupation forces. Ya know, it might be interesting to do some research on this, just from a trivia point of view.

Sherwood and Aqua-Lung, together, are the oldest SCUBA regulator producers in the world. They must be doing something right, eh?

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I suppose the French bought the valves before the start of WWII, since Cousteau and Gagnan developed the system right under the noses of the German occupation forces. Ya know, it might be interesting to do some research on this, just from a trivia point of view.

I've always wondered exactly how a French naval officer and a French engineer were able to develop this design in Paris in 1942-43. I am even more curious how the actual diving / testing of the reg was accomplished in the French Riviera, within the free zone of Vichy France, as my understanding is that this happened in 1943 after the Germans occupied the free zone in November 1942 (in response to the Torch landings in North Africa).

Of course there also may have just been massive disinterest on the part of the Germans given that the British displayed that degree of disinterest when Cousteau approached the British about using the device after the Normandy landings.

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I don't think they (Sherwood) were French, but I was told that the French contracted out or at least used the gas regulation design as a starting point to design their first scuba reg.
Sherwoods inert gas regs very likely were being used in France at the time for welding and other flamable gasses an that's supposedly what they used to make their first prototypes.

The technology itself was not all that new and Air Liquide was at the time adapting a demand valve for use in gas generation on vehicles due to fuel shortages in WWII. At that point, Gagnan's boss reportedly connected Cousteau (his son in-law) to Gagnan to adapt that particular demand valve for diving purposes.

 

[beaverdivers]

Fixed that for you.

Do you feel it is right to change someone's post and misquote them?

 

[jonnythan]

Do you feel it is right to change someone's post and misquote them?

When doing so in a humorous, obvious way, and pointing out that it's not what was actually said, then yes.

You have a conflict of interest. You sell ScubaPro products. You make money by selling ScubaPro products. Online. You are using ScubaBoard as an advertising platform to enable your online shop to sell even more ScubaPro products. You are by definition a highly biased source.