Wow, thanks...source and manufacturer's name? Date?
Your oldest piece of dive gear that still functions
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That is quite a find. ‘Cool Beans’…
Is that a working porpoise? If so, awesome kit you have there.
I have a very old single hose reg, a Rose Pro from Rose Aviation, circa mid-1950s, but it is not functional. My oldest functional single hose is a Healthways Scubair J, circa 1962 - 63, the downstream valve version, not tilt valve.
I believe David Haas may have an old Rose Aviation SHR. I don’t believe it works either.
1965 vintage 1/4 inch custom (homemade my Mom) two piece, beaver tail wetsuit, including boots, mittens, and hood. Might still be useable had I not split the bottoms trying to see if they still fit15 years ago. The old adage “Hope springs eternal” is still valid! Voit combination depth gauge and compass. Homemade lead weights, two weight belts, and a snorkel. Two BFKs (why I bought these for spring and cave diving is still a mystery) round out my never will be used again box of dive gear. Correction: I still use the weights.
It has been said that "Necessity is the mother of invention"
And there is no finer or older example in our industry than the iconic design above.
Designed by Ted Eldred Victoria Australia around the early 1950's called the Porpoise CA
He made 3 variants the CA-1 2 and 3, Sadly he wasn't an American and therefore retained no public or industry acknowledgment for this masterful design.
So much was his influence that I can still name half a dozen diving component designs that were modelled in silent homage to the original master of diving design.
Who in our backwater industry of small workshop diving design and manufacture myself included have incorporated similar architecture features of this iconic model and have used some of the architecture elements of Ted's classic original style just to continue to piss that French prehistoric megalith off who for reasons of courtesy and good British manners I couldn't possibly name in forum.
The necessity part of my reference above was in order for Ted to break away from the hated French Emile Gagnan patent. In result to produce this masterpiece.
Happy Diver: Your not half wrong with that as a name especially with this in your collection.
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Dude it's a welding regulator, with some other bits ha ha ha ha ha!
Still a brillant homage from you never the less
How about Teds rebreather
Still a brillant homage from you never the less
How about Teds rebreather
Again, me I suppose, still functioning. I have a USD square label RAM Cyclone, USD Dolphin Pack, USD steel 72, no-name watch case, USD depth gage that sort of works sometimes, Nemrod Super A Professional fins and USD mask and AquaCraft weight belt.
(Photos by David Haas)
You know, I am in pretty good shape and usually have no issue with keeping up with younger divers nor am I usually a limiting factor to a dive. But I went down to Jupiter and did some dives there and the whole bunch of them, BFKs strapped to legs and the works including on the DMs, instead of drifting with the current (silly me, I thought it was a drift dive
) swam with the current. On the last dive, exhausted, feet hurting from my toes scrunched up in my Eddie Flippers (which I otherwise like but my toes do not), decided to just give up and let them go. I finished my own dive, shot my sausage from 30, and at 1 hour and 1 minute popped up. I was last on the boat (not unusual) but I just was not into chasing after the DM and the few remaining divers. Enough was enough and besides I had these fish for buddies.
(Photos by David Haas)
You know, I am in pretty good shape and usually have no issue with keeping up with younger divers nor am I usually a limiting factor to a dive. But I went down to Jupiter and did some dives there and the whole bunch of them, BFKs strapped to legs and the works including on the DMs, instead of drifting with the current (silly me, I thought it was a drift dive
) swam with the current. On the last dive, exhausted, feet hurting from my toes scrunched up in my Eddie Flippers (which I otherwise like but my toes do not), decided to just give up and let them go. I finished my own dive, shot my sausage from 30, and at 1 hour and 1 minute popped up. I was last on the boat (not unusual) but I just was not into chasing after the DM and the few remaining divers. Enough was enough and besides I had these fish for buddies.
..Hey there …a really nice setup Nemrod. It all looks in fantastic shape. I still gotta dissect my Waterlung SeaVue gauge. I will most likely just replace it with another ScubaPro gauge that I have. No matter how vintage, leaky HP gauges and hoses still a P I T A.
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Great to finally meet you in person.
Don’t be afraid to e-mail or text. I will respond.
S G B
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Great to finally meet you in person.
Don’t be afraid to e-mail or text. I will respond.
S G B
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