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A little history. When I was a teenage I worked part time at what was eventually to become Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida, started by a young marine scientist by the name of Eugenie Clark. Her shark research lab was located near my home in SW Florida, and in 1959 she asked me if I wanted to go to a shark symposium at the Miami Sea Aquarium. As a 16 year old I jumped at the chance. While there I made pals with Philippe Cousteau, Jacques's son. Philippe and I got into a lot of trouble that weekend, but that's another story. But one afternoon we were standing around with Eugenie, Jacques, Jacques's right hand man Frederick Dumas, Philippe, and a couple of other symposium attendees. Eugenie was telling Jacques that she and her helper (ie me) needed some scuba equipment to use in her shark pen to study the sharks that a friend and I had caught. Jacques was the spokesman for US Divers and he turned to Frederick Dumas and said "get them what they need." Frederick subsequently sent a compressor, 2 regulators, and 2 sets of triple 40's tanks, and this regulator is all that's left.
I've kept the regulator all these years and as can be seen in the pictures it is in horrible condition from just sitting on a shelf in my bedroom closets. The yellow tubes are near disintegration stage and must be handled carefully. I don't know if the regulator has any value, but I'll ask $100 for it as I believe it was the first single stage regulator ever sold comercially.
A little history. When I was a teenage I worked part time at what was eventually to become Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida, started by a young marine scientist by the name of Eugenie Clark. Her shark research lab was located near my home in SW Florida, and in 1959 she asked me if I wanted to go to a shark symposium at the Miami Sea Aquarium. As a 16 year old I jumped at the chance. While there I made pals with Philippe Cousteau, Jacques's son. Philippe and I got into a lot of trouble that weekend, but that's another story. But one afternoon we were standing around with Eugenie, Jacques, Jacques's right hand man Frederick Dumas, Philippe, and a couple of other symposium attendees. Eugenie was telling Jacques that she and her helper (ie me) needed some scuba equipment to use in her shark pen to study the sharks that a friend and I had caught. Jacques was the spokesman for US Divers and he turned to Frederick Dumas and said "get them what they need." Frederick subsequently sent a compressor, 2 regulators, and 2 sets of triple 40's tanks, and this regulator is all that's left.
I've kept the regulator all these years and as can be seen in the pictures it is in horrible condition from just sitting on a shelf in my bedroom closets. The yellow tubes are near disintegration stage and must be handled carefully. I don't know if the regulator has any value, but I'll ask $100 for it as I believe it was the first single stage regulator ever sold comercially.
