Buoyancy
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Mark Derail
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WTF is that thing? How is it used? Looks like something to use only in an emergency.
AfterDark
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Son, that's a horse collar BC, it was once the lastest and greatest. Still has good has it was. It almost never needed to be fully inflated. May have been oral and CO2 inflated only no, auto inflate. That's a good catch there Capt'n!
youngster....
Mark Derail
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So, it predates what Jacques Cousteau was using ?!?
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I used one of those for years... Doesn't seem that long ago...
Not at all. lol although JC did introduce compensaters eventually. And sea quest, USd did develop an early horse collar. I think that is what we are looking at.
---------- Post added May 17th, 2012 at 11:25 PM ----------
Yeah. Went back to the pic. When I did my AOW in '79 or 80' , I borrowed my cousins bc. I did not have one. Think that was it, but it was orange.
DaleC
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It's hard to eat just one:
AfterDark
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No, early days there were no BC's a diver weighed himself for the depth he'd be diving and used his lungs to maintain neutral buoyancy. That's the captian's point. It is a Buoyancy Compensator not a buoyancy competency,as the captain posted if they had buoyancy competency they wouldn't need the vest.
Nice collection Dale! All working?
I did my open water in 1973. No bc. We used 2200 psi steel 72's. They had a very gentle buoyancy swing. Frank Hammet was my instructor. See below and you will know from whom I borrowed my sig line.
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