On Tuesday, April 10, 2001 3:09 AM, Lee Bell wrote:

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> > > Even my single hose, the first regulator I
> > > owned, went years before it got a SPG

> > Why was that?

> That was simply how it was.  Nobody I knew even into the late 1960s had
more
> than a tank, plate/harness and single hose regulator.  I got my first
> pressure guage in the mid to late 1960s after running out of air at 128
> feet, in a cave, by myself.

Hadn't you heard of 'J'-valves?

>Yeah, it was dumb even by the standards of that
> day,

I don't know what 'standards' you'd learned to dive by, but the BSAC system
was - even - in the early sixties, pretty thorough in terms of teaching
people not to put themselves in situations in which they couldn't extricate
themselves alone and unaided!

Strike