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Post by tomcatpc on Nov 3, 2014 20:46:03 GMT -8
Found this at a coffee house/vintage book shop in Bowling Green, Ohio. Mark  |
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 21, 2014 20:52:07 GMT -8
Mark,
The Jeppesen Sport Diver Manual was one of the best diving manuals in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The illustrations were, I believe, by Jim Mitchell, who illustrated a lot of the publications for NAUI too. He is a diver, and did a lot of technical diving illustrations with his creative pen.
John
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Post by SeaRat on Nov 24, 2014 22:38:59 GMT -8
Here is one of Jim Mitchell's drawings from NAUI:  John |
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Post by sitkadiver on Nov 25, 2014 19:03:02 GMT -8
Wow mark,
That brings back memories. I was certified in 1987 at the age of 15, and I used a Jeppesen manual. I'm not sure if it was a later edition of not, but the cover is exactly the same.
At that time(late 80's) horse collar BC's were no longer the favorite and had given was to the jacket style BC, we all got a kick out of the drawings in the Jeppesen manual for that reason.
I still own my Seapro horse collar that I used after I purchased some old steel 72's at a garage sale. At the time some friends told me that the 72's would not hold enough air and becuase they all dove Al 80's I had better get bigger tanks if I wanted to "keep-up".
Instead, I banded the 2 voit 72's together and installed a 1/2 pipe thread manifold. And that's where the horse collar BC came in, I needed a little bit of floatation in order to keep the two tanks from anchoring me to the bottom!
I still have the manual on my book shelf and the voit 72's are out in the dive shed awaiting a new maifold.
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