Click on links to see more pictures of the gauge collection.  The Scuba Museum is actively searching to increase the gauge collection.  If you think you have one the Museum needs or does not have please contact us and perhaps we can make a trade for one of the Museum’s doubles.

These are very heavy duty and marked “CCCP” with dates 1977 and 1983.  One came to me with a leather strap.  It is unknown if the strap is original or not.

These Drager wrist gauges are very unusual in that they have magnets attached to return the max depth indicator under the glass.  One is in Metres and one is in Feet.  These gauges are what some people would call UBER cool.  Drager always seems to make good quality gear.

I am guessing this Admiral depth gauge with built in compass is German made, but I do not know for sure.  This one is a little rough but still works after all these years!

This Wilkie (Wilhelm Kienzler) Compass Circa 1968 came with luminescent markings.  This model is in great shape with a great strap and well preserved case.

The Dive Safe Loosco regulator from the 60’s.

The Siebe Gorman Merlin Mk VI with contents gauge.  It has an up stream tilt valve and an over pressure by-pass in case of first stage leaks. It has a Venturi jet which results in great breathing.  The base can is cast brass and all parts are model metals, so there is very little corrosion. The cover can is made of “high impact rubber.” The red cord is a reserve mechanism.  The Siebe had an accessory port and you have the reserve installed. The same port could have a hookah connection, or a by-pass for flushing flooded hoses. The buyer could order what he wanted.  The contents gauge was made by Submarine Products, the company that made the Sea Lion, Atlantis and Black Prince regulators. This one reads “Sous Marine”, which is French submarine products, and it was obviou

This is a fantastic and somewhat rare (in the USA) Siebe Gorman eeSGee Mistral one stage British licenced version of the French Spirotechnique Mistral.  The name esSGee is in fact a play on words for “SG” or Siebe Gorman. You will note that this regulator has a Heinke mouthpiece as the Seibe and Heinke companies mereged in 1960.  Siebe Gorman also made a British version of the CG45.      This particular model has the correct pressure gauge in atmospheres and some very well preserved chrome.  My understanding is that this gauge can only handle about 120 atmospheres or 1800 PSI at risk of damaging it.  This regulator is very over engineered from the box clips to the threaded elbows on the horns.  This model has been retrofitted with straight elbows as the original bent ones were a detriment to performance from what divers have told me.

The green label Sea Lion ATLANTIC demand regulator out of the United Kingdom boasted a nylon return valve mouthpiece, venturi action, spiral breathing hoses that stretched to twice original length,as well as a pressure take off for a contents gauge (submersible pressure gauge).  This regulator sold for about 17 pounds.  Submarine Products was one of three companies to make double hose SCUBA in the UK. Siebe Gorman and Heinke were the other two. By 1960  Siebe Gorman owned all of them. Submarine Products made the Sea Lion, Sea Lion II, Super Sea Lion, Atlantic, and the Black Prince. The Black Prince was also relabeled and sold by Cavalero in France.

The Black Prince by Submarine Products Ltd.  This was yet another very hard breathing regulator from the Submarine Products Company.  It did however have a high pressure port for a contents gauge.  The thread is the same as those on the Heinke and Siebe Gorman regulators.  This regulator was showcased in the British diving magazine, Triton in the February 1971 issue on page 40.  It was advertised as having unbreakable delrin, and sold for 16 pounds and 16 shillings.     If you have any more information on this reg please contact The Scuba Museum.

The Soviet Podwodnik REGULATOR.  This came to me in the original drop box with many spare parts.  The regulator is a single stage and seems to dive well.  I plan on taking it under the water this summer.  I am not sure, but I think the tanks were painted post military service.  The hoses are similar to the old school canvass covered CG45 gas mask hoses.

This is the KAJMAN from POLAND.  It is a single stage and seems solidly built.  It has many extras that I like such as the threaded lock nuts at either side of the one way valves making valve change easy as well as aiding in mouthpiece adjustment.  I have just obtained this model and have not yet been able to dive it, but will soon.  The KAJMAN is DIN and I do not have a POLISH DIN to YOKE converter yet so I am using another in the mean time.  I was told by a former POLISH diver that the Satin finish was made for the military, but some were also made in shiny chrome for civilian use.  TheSCUBAmuseum was lucky enough to mkae contact with Lech Suchy the designer of the Kajman.  Mr Suchy told TheSCUBAmuseum that he developed the Kajman in 1968-69 as experimental gear to replace the 2 stage MORS regulators.  The Kajman was produce simultaneously with the P22 double tanks.  The Kajman was dived several times past the 40 metre mark with the aid of deco bottles.  Mr Suchy produced the first 20 Kajman regualtors and left Poland in 1972 and did not have contact with the company that made the Kajman after that.  Mr Suchy said he very much enjoyed working on the Kajman project with it’s technical and material acquisition problems.

The Scuba Museum has been very fortunate to locate a low serial number black label Kajman regulator.  Only the first Kajmans were made with the black label and only used in military applications officially.  The Kajman became a favorite of military divers and many Kajmans found their way to civilian hands through unconventional means.  The regulator itself does not appear to be any different except for the label, but are a bit harder to find in the USA.  This model is in very nice shape and quite dive worthy.

The MORS was first introduced in the 1950s and used by the Police, Military, and Fire Departments in Poland well into the 1980s.  It is a very robust hearty regulator with canvass covered hoses, threaded collars on the mouthpiece and horns, as well as a DIN fitting.  I have pictured here two versions.  One is shiny chrome and the other satin chrome.

The Nemrod Snark III by Seamless was Spanish made.  Nemrod made some really great double hoses and they sold well into the late 90’s.  The Nemrod regulators are easy breathing, but oddly enough they are somewhat hard to get parts for today.

This regulator is a V2 by Nemrod of Spain.  All the first V2 regulators imported to the USA were marked Snark III.  The main reason for the name change was to avoid the political gaff of the regulator having the same name as Hitler’s V2 vengance weapon launched against London during WWII.  This particular model was most likely made in the mid to late 50s.      The hose assembly on this regulator is a very rare surviving example of the one hose assembly similar to the early Aqua Lungs.  These hoses are black but earlier models had blue or red hoses that perished very easily.  This improved black version held up much better and could be found on the V2(Snark III) and the earlier Asteria.

This is a very nice example of a CG45, or Cousteau Gagnon 1945 regulator.  The amount of extra machining as compared to later models is astounding.  Note the 25mm threaded collars on the horns and the mouthpiece.  By 1947 the designation SARL had been restructured by L’Air Liquide so this nameplate  reads SA (Societe Anynome)

This is a French Spriotechnique Mistral.  I have not restored this one though it could be done very easily.  I have a French Spirotechnique Royal Mistral that I dive quite a lot and love it.  This was reported to be Cousteau’s favorite regulator to dive with.  This one has a rather early all metal mouthpiece T with no one way valves.  The case was designed to look like a ship’s wheel and at first glance gives off a Voit look to some.  One problem with these regulators in the USA is that the nozzel is just a little too larges for American tank valves.  before you can use one here in the USA you have to get the nozzel turned by a craftsman.

This Souplair was released originally by Espadon Tarzan a company started by George Beauchat.  Owing to copyright problems with MGM the company stopped using the Tarzan label and simply used Espadon and Beauchat Sub a few years after that.  This Souplair pictured, as you may recognize is simply a rebadged Spirotechnique Royal Mistral.  There where a total of three different Mistral souplair configurations.  All three mixed early or late model mistral cans as well as Atlantic Products mouthpieces and/or Spirotechnique mouthpieces causing much confusion for potential collectors today.

While this is not a “SCUBA” unit it is very high in the coolness factor.  It is intended to be used with surface supplied air.  The diver is attached to the surface via a low pressure hose and the single stage regulator provides air to the diver for presumably a very long working dive.  This unit is currently missing the mouthpiece and hoses, but is in almost new condition and appears to have been used very little.  Take a look at the really old school diaphragm that appears to still be dive worthy after all these years.

This is a Schick Safety Scuba regulator from Frankfurt Germany.  It incorporated an APAG mouthpiece and possibly hoses from the factory.  It was offered in DIN.  I welcome any additional information that you may have about this regulator and Schick in general.

This is a fine example of a two stage Drager PA61/II from Germany.  It dates from 1962 to 1971 and has an unusual DSV style mouthpiece.  I suspect that the mouthpiece is a military one intended to be used with a full face mask.  If you look in the pictures you can clearly see the DSV in the open and closed position.

This is a Drager Monomat from West Germany.  This was a single stage double hose similar to the Mistral.  I currently do not have a good diaphragm for it so have not been able to dive it.

This Medi was produced in East Germany and is very robust.  The MEDI name comes from VEB Medizintechnik Leipzig, however I believe this model is called the Hydromat 62004.  This is the early model and was made about 1962 or `963.  The Medi was originally made for the DDR Volksmarine  (East German Navy), but was later made a sold to civilian divers.  The Medi came with double or triple 7 litre tanks.  It is DIN only and a good breather.  These are very common even in the USA and parts are still available.  This particular Medi came to me with a wrench for on the spot field repairs.

This is a MLW regulator from East Germany.  It is almost identical to the Medi but sports a high pressure port.

This “aqua lung” was made under contract in Japan by Kawasaki Nihon.  It is very similar to the US version save for a few minor details.  The Kawasaki is metric, came with seamless hoses, different clamps, and most interesting is the lead seal on the can halves.  I would only guess that after a tech would do a rebuild on this regulator he was required to wire in a new seal showing the regulator was rebuilt and untampered with.  With the aid of www.VINTAGEDOUBLEHOSE.com  I hope to have this regulator in the water for the upcoming Sand Dog.

This Duro Dakovic HR-M74 circa 1970’s came to The Scuba Museum brand new.  It appears to be a clone of the Spirotechnique Royal Mistral.  The nozzle is oversized for US tank valves and the yoke is very short limiting its practical use in the US without modification.  This model when opened was heavily greased and had to be cleaned before using it.  It is unclear if this was simply a protective coating or simply a ill-advised set up method.  There was also a civilian version of this regulator produced called the Jadran.  It appeared to be the same regulator with a nicer blue themed label.  One unique feature to this regulator is that the inhalation and exhaust horns are switched from the to common inhalation on the right and exhaust on the left.  It is unclear why the Croatian/ Yugoslavians made this

This International Divers two stage Navy Type was obtained by the museum in Ontario Canada.  It came complete with the one piece hose assembly and a repair tag from August 1966.  It listed a new hose assembly for $12.95, HP seat for $3.15, Horseshoe for $5.50, hinge pin 50 cents, and duck bill for $2.75 for a grand total of $29.85 after the $5.00 in labor was tacked on.  Oh how things have changed.  This regulator had no one way valves in the mouthpiece so one had to roll to clear it.

International Divers of Montreal Canada made direct copies of US Divers regulators.  This single stage was a Mistral copy.  It retailed for $60.00 in 1958.  This model was located by the museum staff near the Toronto area.  The hoses were perished so new reproductions were placed on the reg.  This model did not use a duckbill instead opting for a one way valve lodged in the exhalation hose.

This Canadian made Liquid Air Trade Mark Aqua Lung dates from about 1948.  It is a two stage and very rare to find today in any condition.  This one was gotten from the Montreal area by the Museum staff and we are very pleased to have it in the collection.  This particular specimen came to the museum sans hoses and mouthpiece so US Divers are placed ot the regulator for display purposes only.