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Old 25-04-08, 12:23 PM
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diving in the 70s and 80s
Couldn't think of anywhere else to put this....................

I've been given a load of old DIVER magazines. By old, I mean 1979 onwards.

Flicking through them (I'm up to about 1982/3), I can't help but be amazed by the diving then. 40-60m on a CMAS two star ticket? On Air? On Tables? In wetsuits?

WOW!!!

Hats off in a big way to the guys and girls who were diving then

Almost as amazing are the number and size of the beards in the pictures
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Don't chuck those out when you've finished with them. If you decide to get rid, chuck them in my direction, I love reading the older mags.
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Couldn't think of anywhere else to put this....................

I've been given a load of old DIVER magazines. By old, I mean 1979 onwards.

Flicking through them (I'm up to about 1982/3), I can't help but be amazed by the diving then. 40-60m on a CMAS two star ticket? On Air? On Tables? In wetsuits?

WOW!!!

Hats off in a big way to the guys and girls who were diving then

Almost as amazing are the number and size of the beards in the pictures
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It was fun, lot less clutter.
Used to get all my dive kit apart from 82cuft cylinder and 16lb weightbelt into my yellow Spiro bag (Wetsuit/ABLJ/DV/BIG knife/Depth gauge/compass/torch/SMBand reel)
Got technical when I started using a Pony cylinder and a drysuit....
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Couldn't think of anywhere else to put this....................

I've been given a load of old DIVER magazines. By old, I mean 1979 onwards.

Flicking through them (I'm up to about 1982/3), I can't help but be amazed by the diving then. 40-60m on a CMAS two star ticket? On Air? On Tables? In wetsuits?

WOW!!!

Hats off in a big way to the guys and girls who were diving then

Almost as amazing are the number and size of the beards in the pictures
It was a lot of fun. Even more so 10 years earlier when the twin hose DV ruled. You had to work for your air too - not like today where your reg throws it at you
Quiet wrecks, more scallops and a real sense of adventure.
Far fewer badges to collect as well - amazing most of us survived and, as Odin says, a lot less clutter.

Try it
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It was fun, lot less clutter.
Used to get all my dive kit apart from 82cuft cylinder and 16lb weightbelt into my yellow Spiro bag (Wetsuit/ABLJ/DV/BIG knife/Depth gauge/compass/torch/SMBand reel)
Got technical when I started using a Pony cylinder and a drysuit....
OOOOO - yellow spiro bag - now there was an old friend - RIP .

Kinda like a Viz Character: "Yellow Spiro - The Faithful Dive Kit Bag"

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OOOOO - yellow spiro bag - now there was an old friend - RIP .

Kinda like a Viz Character: "Yellow Spiro - The Faithful Dive Kit Bag"

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They made great wooley bears too. Have one my brother passed to me. We call it the tron suit coz its black with all this yellow piping.

Nice!!
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OOOOO - yellow spiro bag - now there was an old friend - RIP .

Kinda like a Viz Character: "Yellow Spiro - The Faithful Dive Kit Bag"

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What you mean like blackie the binbag?
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What you mean like blackie the binbag?
Black Bag, The faithful border bin liner!!
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