Reef Fish wrote"

> >Sonafagun......I was watching "Thunderball" the old James Bond
> >flick, the other night and I was wondering why the reg was
> >venting out from between the twin tanks they were using. Twin
> >hose just as Crusty described.

> >I luv those old UW flicks. No BCDs, no guages, just a tank,

> Waddya mean "old UW flicks"?
>
> That was exactly the "full gear" I was offered when I was going
> to take a short dive at lunch break on a sightseeing cruise in
> Acapulco circa 1988!  :-)

That also does a pretty good job of describing the gear I learned on back in
the early 60's.  To the best of my recollection, the regulator I used didn't
have ports for attachments.  Even my single hose, the first regulator I
owned, went years before it got a SPG and an Octopus and BC were relatively
recent additions, i.e. within the last 15 years.

> In the "old UW flicks" of Lloyd Bridges (before my TV watching
> time) which supposedly inspired many divers wannabee, I am not
> sure what gears are worn, but in every episode (I was told by
> a Dave Berry article <G>) Lloyd's hose was cut and the tank
> propelled him like a torpedo.

Lloyd's exhaust hose was cut in many of the episodes.  I do not recall that
he was ever propelled like a torpedo.  For a long time, a lot of folks
figured that other divers with knives were the primary risk of diving.

Lee