Vintage Double Hose Regulator

[acelockco]

Word!

I would surely have a redundant system nearby, and these dives take place in a quarry under pretty controlled conditions with safety divers and photographers. Supposedly the news showed up last year.

Anyway, Lottie your stuff is definately in line with what I am talking about. If anything it is even better because it was something that you know the history of and have ties to. Maybe you can use that as a start to your own collection.

I am acutally looking for an old school mask right now. I figure if I am going to dive the double hose reg, I will have to get the rest of the old vintage gear to go along with it. Old horse collar BC, plastic hard pack, double 45'ish tanks and whatever else I can find. Maybe a Creature from the Black Lagoon to pose with as well.

[lottie]

Maybe a Creature from the Black Lagoon to pose with as well.

They have "The Thing" down here....it only comes out at night though and nobody knows what it is...<cue the scary music>

[hbh2oguard]

Hey ace I have the hard plastic plate and the horse collar bc from when my dad dove, but I'm almost 100% sure the guys that dove those regs before you never had a bc. Maybe now is the time to dump the bc like you were thinking about earlier.

[acelockco]

Oh yea' you know it!

I was thinking about the old horse collar, but I don't think they used them. Instead, I think they practiced pin point buoyancy skills.

[hbh2oguard]

Here is proof that no bcd existed back then

1971: Scubapro introduces the Stabilization Jacket, now in England commonly called stab jacket, and elsewhere Buoyancy Control (or Compensation) Device (BC or BCD).

This is off a timeline of Scuba history on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ing_technology

[acelockco]

Really nice link!

It is just fun to look at that timeline and see what things you remember. And what things you did not even know or think about before.

Thanks!

[amtrosie]

Here is proof that no bcd existed back then

1971: Scubapro introduces the Stabilization Jacket, now in England commonly called stab jacket, and elsewhere Buoyancy Control (or Compensation) Device (BC or BCD).

This is off a timeline of Scuba history on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ing_technology

Wikipedia is not a reliable reference. Anyone can change the content. That being said, I have no first hand knowledge of when the BC first hit the market.

[hbh2oguard]

amtrosie trust me I know that as a full time student, but I just found the timeline and thought it was kind of cool, and atleast most of the info is correct.

http://scuba.about.com/od/history/a/scubahistory.htm

http://www.divinghistory.com/timeline.htm

The second link again has the bcd invented 1971 hopefully these give me enough proof now