Vintage Diving Catalogs

[vintagefrank]

I knew that this is of interest. There should be many vintage collectors around - but as I think, there is no-one who can cover the complete catalogs.

Why don´t we announce to our fellows which catalogs are held so that others could share the matters of these old catalogs?

I can offer the informations held in these catalogs:

Aquacraft: 1976, 1987/88
Barakuda: 1960,1962,1965, 1966,1967,1968,1973,1978
Dacor: ca. 1963, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1989
GMC: 1973
Healthways: 1961, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971
Ikelite: 1976, 1980
Imperial: 1973
JWL: 1991, 1992
Mares: 1980
New England Divers: 1976, 1981
Ocean Dynamics: ca. 1980
Parkway: 1973, 1980
Scubapro: 1964, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990-2006
Seacraft: (no year)
Seaquest: 1980
Seamless (Nemrod): 1965, 1966, ca. 1981 Nemrod
Seemann: ca. 1981, 1991
Sherwood: 1987, 1988
Spirotechnique: 1968, 1969, 1981, 1982, 1987
Sportsways: 1965, 1973
Tauchtechnik: ca. 1981
US Divers: 1958, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1986
Voit: 1964, 1965
Wenoka: (no date)
White Stag: 1971


If anyone needs some informations from them - just send me an email...

frank

[broxton]

I can help with the following:

US Divers : Everyone up to 98
Dacor:60,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80
Scubapro : 63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,75,77-80,82,84-94
Healthways: 58,59,60,61,62,63,65,69,70,71,72,73,74,75
Sportsways: 61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,71,72,73,74,75,77,78
Voit :
58,60,61,62,63,64,65,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79
Swimaster : 59,60,61,62,63
Nemrod : 63,72,73

[eskimojoe]

broxton said:

I can help with the following:

US Divers : Everyone up to 98
Dacor : 60,63,66,67,68,72,73,74,76,78,80
Scubapro : 63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,75,77-80,82,84,86-94
Healthways: 58,59,60,61,62,63,69,73
Sportsways: 61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,71,75
Voit : 58,61,62,63,64,65,67,68,69,70,72,74
Swimaster : 59,60,62,63
Nemrod : 63,72

Hi Broxton,

I have seen two versions of the 1953 USD catalog. The one put out mid-1953 can be found on:

www.geocities.com/athens/atlantis/2427/divecat/index.html#frontback

Is 1953 the year you consder the first eddition of a US Diver catalog came out?

[broxton]

Eskimojoe,

I take it you're the same eskimo on VDH, because I'm ovalis on VDH

[eskimojoe]

Hi Broxton/Ovalis,

Same eskimo, still fishing.

[allank]

Hi Frank (vintagefrank), hope you're still on here. I have a Cosmos wet sub. They were sold by Healthways under the Healthways brand. I've seen some things from Scubapro showing the same sub presumably after Healthways went under. I'm interested to know if the sub appears in any of the Scubapro 1960's catalogues. Thanks for any help you can offer, Regards Allan

[DavidRitchieWilson]

Feb 24, 2024 23:42:47 GMT -8 allank said:

Hi Frank (vintagefrank), hope you're still on here. I have a Cosmos wet sub. They were sold by Healthways under the Healthways brand. I've seen some things from Scubapro showing the same sub presumably after Healthways went under. I'm interested to know if the sub appears in any of the Scubapro 1960's catalogues. Thanks for any help you can offer, Regards Allan

Hope you don't mind me butting in, Allan and Frank.

Is the following what you had in mind when you mention the Healthways sub? From the Healthways 1961 catalogue:

The same source of the above page (BluTimeScubaHistory) has many Scubapro catalogue scans available to all. You can find them at Page 7 and at Page 8.

Hope this helps.

DRW

PS. I found the following in the Scubapro 1964 catalogue:

the Scubapro 1965 catalogue:

[DavidRitchieWilson]

Continuing to address the title of this thread, here are some online sources of free-to-view scanned diving equipment catalogues that I have chanced upon over the years.

1. Underwater swimming gear catalogues
2. Vintage Double Hose
3. Historical Diving Equipment
4. CG-45
5. BluTimeScubaHistory
6. Vintage double hose regs collector
7. Vintage Scuba Collection
8. Spiro Vintage

DRW