When did modern BC's show up???

[Eric Sedletzky]

Bob3’s post is 5 up from this one and is from 2003 lol!
I didn’t see that, yeah it’s a fossil!

 

[lowwall]

Bob3’s post is 5 up from this one and is from 2003 lol!
I didn’t see that, yeah it’s a fossil!

I'm still subscribing to the thread just in case @devjr decides to finish his post. Sure it's been 18 years since his last visit, but you never know.

 

[Dave McLean]

Use this link to the Google Presenter Slide Show. Go to Present it and click through the animations.

The History of buoyancy compensators_2015

 

[Dave McLean]

Circa 1985 with an ADV prototype at Seaquest...

 

[berkleegrad]

Use this link to the Google Presenter Slide Show. Go to Present it and click through the animations.

The History of buoyancy compensators_2015

TY, always appreciate being a little less uninformed

As kid, I was enthralled with Sea Hunt and fascinated by the exploits of Jacques Cousteau. Thanks for that reverie in your presentation. Oh yea, thank you for your own efforts along the way!

 

[berkleegrad]

I was numerous times denied the use of my early SP back inflate BC and later fussed at incessantly by self appointed DMs about my back inflate SeaTec BCs to the point that I always kept (and still do) a functioning horse collar BC and almost threw in the towel and got a poodle jacket. Why so much grief, and we are talking 70s and 80s mostly here, well, it was claimed that the back inflate BC would shove a diver face down and a jacket style (or horse collar) would float me face up (prove that!). My retort was to show me the USCG approved Type rating on any BC of any sort showing that they are designed to be anything other than for buoyancy compensation regardless of what other possible and unproven qualities they might have.

Was in a dive store last week where the salesman told me; ‘I didn’t want a back inflated BC because it would float me “face down” at the surface’ - regardless that I’ve been diving bp/w for decades and I somehow managed to still be alive.