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Post by tomcatpc on Jun 29, 2017 18:46:31 GMT -8
Healthways Weights and Belt. Mark
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 30, 2017 8:01:12 GMT -8
Pretty nifty Mark: that's one of he things I still don't have... That's just another quest, and part of the fun JB
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Post by nikeajax on Jul 29, 2017 13:11:46 GMT -8
This one's from around 1962 as denoted by the yoke screw that says "Healthways": JB
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Post by diverdon on Aug 7, 2017 13:51:15 GMT -8
This one's from around 1962 as denoted by the yoke screw that says "Healthways": JB I have its twin, JB. Of course with SF being the way it is you'll have to trust me DD
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Post by tomcatpc on Aug 19, 2017 20:03:26 GMT -8
And it looks like I found another Healthways Weight Belt. This is cotton canvas and I'd guess it is late 50's or early 60's? I think that Healthways used a yellow "golden rod" colour prior to their Aqua-Blue webbing on harnesses and belts? I got this belt a few days back from a person I met at the vintage scuba event I went to the week before. I had mentioned that I was looking for a Healthways wire belt buckle for a Scuba-Pak I got that needed the buckle. Well...the belt webbing came along with this buckle. Now I'm considering leaving the belt alone how it is and keeping the Trident wire buckle on my Scuba-Pak? First World Problem if there ever was one... Anyway, I'm fairly certain this is a Healthways belt, but not 100%? Mark Save
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Post by tomcatpc on Aug 19, 2017 20:04:56 GMT -8
Healthways Ad from Dec. 1970 (Month and year I was born) "Skin Diver" Magazine. Mark
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Post by vance on Aug 26, 2017 12:00:26 GMT -8
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Post by SeaRat on Aug 26, 2017 13:42:07 GMT -8
Haven't been able to figure out how to use this Healthways peripheral while diving..... In the waistbelt of the tuxt that is under your Aquala dry suit! "Goldfinger!" John
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Post by SeaRat on Aug 27, 2017 15:21:44 GMT -8
I was mistaken, it was in a shoulder/underarm harness that Bond had the pistol.
"Shocking,...positively shocking!"
DRW, what did you think of Bond's snorkel?
Ty, that did look like an Aquala dry suit too. But they skipped a bit and it seemed that they simply cut the dry suit away for this sequence.
What do you think, JB?
John
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Post by Aquala1 on Aug 28, 2017 11:10:14 GMT -8
John, I wish it were, as that would be a huge feather in Aquala's cap, but it looks like they want us to believe the black silky looking jumpsuit he wears over the tux, is actually the dry suit. Unless I missed something in that split-second before James climbs out of the water. Maybe I should get Q to design a new suit for Aquala. 😀
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Post by nikeajax on Oct 19, 2017 15:00:28 GMT -8
While talking to Jim Steele he mentioned that these: were very popular with the Alameda County Sherrif's Department divers: excellent for "black-water diving" no seeing necessary, just use your fingertip and 'nail to figure out where you are with air Huh, may use that as fodder in some of my writing... JB
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Oct 21, 2017 2:00:22 GMT -8
DRW, what did you think of Bond's snorkel? John Sorry for joining this thread so late, John. Yes, that's the oddest flex-hose snorkel I've ever seen. The supply end gives another meaning to the term "duckbill valve" as well. I've never owned a piece of Healthways equipment, but I've come close, having bought a "Stabilizator" mask in the late 1960s when I joined my university sub-aqua club in the North of England. I no longer have it. Here's a model currently on eBay: The major British diving equipment manufacturer of the day, E. T. Skinner (Typhoon), "carried" the mask; they didn't manufacture it. The company imported Stabilizator masks from Marin of Nice on the French Riviera, where they were actually made. The only manufacturing Typhoon did was to add their own drain valves to the French mask. Healthways must also have "carried" the mask, which first appeared in its 1961 catalogue and was still going strong in its 1970 edition. If you want to know more about the Marin brand of underwater equipment, which included the Stabilizator mask, have a look at my attempt at catalogue reconstruction at drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw7z_4bLjOOET3RhM0JpaDlDTG8. The man behind the brand was Roland Forjot, who eventually sold his Société de Fabrication d'Articles de Chasse d'Exploitation Sous-Marine to Scubapro in the late 1970s, much to the consternation of other contemporary French diving gear companies which feared creeping globalisation. DRW
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Oct 21, 2017 2:13:30 GMT -8
Healthways Weights and Belt. Mark Mark: I wonder whether Healthways imported this weight belt from France rather than making it in-house. Have a look at the weight belt on page 19 of my reconstructed Marin catalogue at drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw7z_4bLjOOET3RhM0JpaDlDTG8. I obtained the image from an advertisement in a 1961 issue of "L'aventure sous marine", the French national recreational diving magazine. Roland Forjot, the man behind the Marin brand, which was based in Nice on the French Riviera, had a French patent for a quick-release belt: Roland Forjot (November 1961) French Patent FR1277075A: Boucle de ceinture dégrafable instantanément (Quick-release belt buckle). The original advertisement can be seen on the last page of my "catalogue" with the patent number and the bibliographical details of the ad I used as a source. DRW
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Oct 21, 2017 3:01:36 GMT -8
I don't think the subject of Healthways drysuits has cropped up yet on this thread, so I'll put in my two cents' worth there. I hasten to add that I don't own one, but that hasn't stopped me doing some reading research on the topic. Here's a page from George Bronson-Howard's "Handbook for Skin Divers" of 1956: The lower-right image is of a Healthways Carib full-length front-entry suit, which was also available in a swim shirt version for warmer seasons. The Carib was the first and the last drysuit in the Healthways repertoire. It appeared in the famous Equipment Listing Appendix of the Carriers' 1955 edition of "Dive" (Wilfred Funk Inc.) and its final appearance was in Healthways' 1958-1959 catalogue. The following Healthways diving suit listing comes from the Skin Diving History website: As you can see the listing features two other short-lived drysuits, the Aqua King and the Aqua Flite. These suits were waist-entry, while the original Carib full-length suit was front-entry via a chest tunnel that was tied off after donning, like the Aquala. The pricing is interesting when comparisons are made with the wetsuits in the listing. Back then, drysuits tended to be much cheaper than "new-fangled" neoprene wetsuits, despite the fact that Healthways drysuits were made from two-ply laminated material.
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Post by nikeajax on Oct 21, 2017 7:11:56 GMT -8
DRW, I always enjoy your input, cuz ya ain't 'Merican (American), so we get a different perspective that allows for a sharper focus in some areas, this being one of them... So, Czech this out: Yep, Peche-Sport dry suits and Divairs! Gosh, they liked their Divairs so much they wore 'em backwards so's e'ryone'd know'ed them'r Divairs--yeah-boy! JB
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