@John ("Popeye") Renshaw
"Popeye"-- but in society and with propriety we will call you John
I suspect you had seen a similar one or two way back in your LA Co ADP days..
This unit it almost a carbon copy of the Aquaeon designed and developed by the late great SoCal Cal Tec Engineer Dr. Calvin (Cal) Gongwer in the early 1950s.
The major differences is possibly a bit of modern streamlining and modern materials - but the function and operation is almost identical.
Some time in way the distant past. Cal used the Aquaeon to tow the late great Flip Fleidner. ( LA Co UW instructor and the recipient of the worlds first honor as an "Out Standing LA Co Underwater instructor of the year in 1961" (NAUI was a Year old and PADI, Inc was 10 years in the future) from San Pedro to Avalon Catalina Island, a distance of 26 miles. (No dr bill was not there to meet them! he too was in the future )
I had one and it was a blast ! A blast to zoom around a swimming pool ! A blast to swim in blue water ! BUT
A supper entanglement machine when used in the then lush California Kelp beds.
A well designed, well made machine of oak wood and stainless steel parts. Some how 40 perhaps more years ago it was no longer being used as a novelty for the swimming pool and was always getting in the way and some how disappeared.
Thanks for the info. The apparatus was a great idea while it lasted. Surely it still must have some specialized applications, especially in rescue work. Although probably made obsolete due to popularity of motorized underwater tow machines. With machines to do the pulling for you, you wouldn't need all the physically strenuous practice.
So what you are inquiring about is a up graded Aqueon made of modern materials and probably modified using computer technology to correct the original design flaws .
John that is about the best I can provide. I some how suspect you,.
@Scuba Lawyer and I are the only two on this thread who have not only seen and possibly actually dove one.
Sam Miller, III