Is this even scuba gear?

[elmer fudd]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7199232131&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

The seller has it listed as a double hose regulator with face mask, but the more I look at it the more I suspect that it is really an early Soviet era gas mask. I'm guessing it was made to be used inside a vehicle and that's the reason for the reg.

Whatever the case it is interesting.

 

[justleesa]

I see that one of the bidders is familiar to me and he usually bids on vintage scuba stuff...the reg looks scuba, but as you say, the mask doesn't.

Interested in finding out what it is too.

 

[Walter]

It looks like a Soviet rebreather. They did have masks like that.

 

[elmer fudd]

That makes sense. It looked to me like cyrillic writing on the valve near the mouthpiece, so I assumed it was Soviet. The odd sized din style connection on the regulator also led me to think it was east European or Soviet. That mask sure doesn't look like your typical scuba setup though. As well as having an external resemblance to a gas mask, the picture of it's interior looks like one too. I guess both devices have a similar function though.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I've seen these before on ebay advertised as part of a rebreather setup not necessarily for diving. The russian/soviet navy used them connected to a rebreather type device that was more for escape use or in contaminated air situations. If you look at the one pid there does not appear to be a nose block for equalization purposes and I don't think you could pinch. True there are other methods but even then the good ol pinch or press the shnoz to the block would still seem to be a logical option. That helps me to lean towards the possible sub escape hood or the 1st stage to the contaminated air rebreather scenario. Of course if the old USSR made it could be used for everything comrades because they only make the best most versatile items! And soviet navy does not need to equalize! Better than western dog sailors! Da!

 

[O2BBubbleFree]

I've seen lots of ex-soviet rebreathers for sale on eBay, with hoods like this one, but I don't think this is part of one. There's no reason for the hoses on a rebreather to come directly off of a regulator, as this one seems to do. On a rebreather, the scrubber and counterlungs have to be at (close to) the same pressure as the mouthpiece, or the gas won't circulate.

I think it is actually a double-hose reg., as advertised, not part of a rebreather.

 

[The Kraken]

Looks like a haz-mat device to me.

the K

 

[jrv]

That is a soviet double hose regulator used for diving, the soviets mainly dived using full fase masks similar to gas masks when diving, that specific regulator is an avm-1

here is a website with information about soviet diving equipment

http://russub.ru/timb12t56/Main_frames.htm

 

[BrianM]

That is a soviet double hose regulator used for diving, the soviets mainly dived using full fase masks similar to gas masks when diving, that specific regulator is an avm-1

here is a website with information about soviet diving equipment

http://russub.ru/timb12t56/Main_frames.htm

Cool site but I think there is a typo in the description of one of the rebreathers:

"The superb design of this equipment allowed the crew of the submarine "Komsomolets" to escape from depths of 600 meters, making it the only escape lung to have been field proven in such depths."

http://russub.ru/timb12t56/Rebreathers.htm#IDA_59