On Saturday, July 19, 2003 7:53 PM, Christian wrote:

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> It might be another fable, but didn't this American distributor think,
> I forget the exact number but it was below ten, as the total limit to
> the Aqualung?

G'Day, Mate!  As a hoarder of magazines, I kept the "50 Years of Scuba"
insert that the now defunct, Skin Diver magazine put out in 1993. One of the
early paragraphs reads:  "The Aqua-Lung, however, was hardly an overnight
success.  In 1950, only 10 Aqua-Lungs had been shipped to the U.S.  Captain
Cousteau can still remember the response of his U.S. distributor when asked
how many additional Aqua-Lungs he would like to order.  The answer was
"none".  The now famous reason?  "The market is saturated."   :-))

Strike