Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2003 10:02:52 GMT -8
Some of you may not remember or have seen this. In the early 70's Jacques Cousteau produced a series of television showes called The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. In it the divers used a furturistic looking peice of diving equiptment . It consisted of a yellow housing enclosing twin tanks similar to the USD 1 unit.
This unit did not use nylon straps for the shoulders. Instead there were 2 ridgid hinged shoulder straps that came together into a large triangular housing on the chest. Two hoses similar to the hoses on a 2 hose regulator came out of the chest housing. A smaller hose came over the shoulder from the back housing to the chest housing. Looked very high tech. In reality all it was was a modified Aqua Master with the first stage and yoke removed an a plug installed in place of the first stage.The smaller hose supplied intermediate pressure from a single hose first stage in the back pack to the hooka port on the Aqua Master. I wonder how this setup breathed with the diaphragm located on the chest rather than on the back. Does anyone have any information or pictures of this rig.
Tom
This unit did not use nylon straps for the shoulders. Instead there were 2 ridgid hinged shoulder straps that came together into a large triangular housing on the chest. Two hoses similar to the hoses on a 2 hose regulator came out of the chest housing. A smaller hose came over the shoulder from the back housing to the chest housing. Looked very high tech. In reality all it was was a modified Aqua Master with the first stage and yoke removed an a plug installed in place of the first stage.The smaller hose supplied intermediate pressure from a single hose first stage in the back pack to the hooka port on the Aqua Master. I wonder how this setup breathed with the diaphragm located on the chest rather than on the back. Does anyone have any information or pictures of this rig.
Tom
