Speaking of vintage equipment

[12th Man]

I DVR'd the classic movie Creature from the Black Lagoon from 1954. I watched it the other night. Talk about vintage dive equipment. I was digging it each time they pulled out the smaller double AquaLung tanks, suited up with their vintage mask and regulator and down in the water they went. I guess, it was all state of the art back then.

Sorry can't figure out how to post the picture I wanted to share.

Great old movie BTW.

 

[regulator bj]

Hi 12th Man
Maybe this will help
john68

 

[12th Man]

That was the picture I was trying to figure out how to upload. Thank you.

 

[herman]

Love those old promo shots. The reg in the photo is up side down.

 

[dead dog]

The speargun is big enough to take down a whale.

 

[abnfrog]

wow herman I had to look twice to see it

 

[lowflyer]

Just look at my avatar if you want to see vintage equipment
Yes, that's me back in the day.

 

[David Wilson]

Fact and fiction 1954-style. The latter:
And the former, illustrated in figure 54 below from Hilbert Schenk Jr and Henry Kendall's classic diving manual Shallow Water Diving and Spearfishing, whose first edition Cornell Maritime Press published in 1954, the very same year Universal-International released Creature from the Black Lagoon:

Founded in 1937 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Diving Equipment and Salvage Company and still in business today, underwater gear manufacturer DESCO expanded its product base of exclusively professional, commercial and military designs from 1947 to1960 to supply a then growing peacetime leisure market with masks, fins, snorkels, spearguns, aquaplanes and water-skis. 1949-1954 DESCO Water Sports catalogue accessible online at https://www.divedesco.com/Content/files/diveProductDownloads/1949to54DESCOWaterSportsCatalog.pdf.

 

[ThatDogDontHunt]

My divebuddy is vintage equipment...

 

[ThatDogDontHunt]

My divebuddy is vintage equipment...

But she is not old yet...