Your oldest piece of dive gear that still functions

[Eric Sedletzky]

I have all kinds of crap.
I would have to dig through to see what there is.
Off the top if my head I have a later 60's Conshelf 11 that I just put a kit in not long ago and I use for beach diving sometimes with an LP 72 on a back pack. It only has two LP ports but I only use one second stage on it, the original 1085, and the HP port is 3/8" and needs an adapter.

 

[The Chairman]

But, how long have you owned it? I have older gear, but I've owned those fins the longest.

 

[RyanT]

Orca Edge computer from 1988.

 

[Bigbella]

I still have a fully-functional double manifold from Aqua Sports / Poseidon from the early 1960s, when the Swedes were undecided upon which name to settle upon — with the then-new feature of an HP port, when their Cyklon Junior regulator, at that time, had only a single LP port for a second stage and no capacity for an SPG.

Here is a shot of it attached to a far more “modern” Cyklon Sport from the early 1970s . . .

 

[lexvil]

ScubaPro MK-2 (gen1 from 1963)....

This and MK 5’s were my expectation for leading contenders in this post.

 

[thomschoon]

My first Scubapro purchase in 1975, a BAFK worn just like Mike Nelson on the calf. Most everything else I sadly gave away as I got newer versions.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

But, how long have you owned it? I have older gear, but I've owned those fins the longest.

I re-read the OP and he said oldest functioning piece of gear, he didn't say that we had to be the original buyers. If we have to be the original purchasers as new, then nothing older than 1998 for me.

 

[The Chairman]

Orca Edge computer from 1988.

I have that same computer, though I bought it in 2000. I got yelled at here.

 

[The Chairman]

I re-read the OP and he said oldest functioning piece of gear, he didn't say that we had to be the original buyers. If we have to be the original purchasers as new, then nothing older than 1998 for me.

Sure... I'd still like to know both.

 

[Still Kicking]

But, how long have you owned it? I have older gear, but I've owned those fins the longest.

Yeah you have to have owned it and used it for it the count. Anyone can buy an old piece of gear on ebay.

Having said that, I have been looking for a 72 that was made in August 1966 (like me). I have found ones from July and September but not August. If anyone has one ....