Vintage Scuba: More Weird Stuff - S02E03 

I really don't know if I ever will go scuba diving, and I never had currently, but I have watched every one of these videos. It's a keen view of a significant piece of human exploration equipment! Man, I just love watching these.

The best thing is the sound effects that Alec makes, haha

As usual, really neat stuff Alec. I continue to be amazed. Thanks again for sharing!

Very informative. Hope the next generations would view this equipment which is very rich in History

Alec, thanks again. Finally I could see how one of those inflatable ballon really work. Keep them coming!

Great again Alec. Seen Mike Nelson in his famous white shorts with black stripes inflating and float his dive marker. Very cool. I seen a modern Version of the sea dart in a underwater horror movie. It inflated a guys chest. Keep them coming Alec. Have a great fall. Snowed flurries today here in montana. See yah. Montana Mike.

Love the videos! keep them coming! As a note, CO2 cartridges are still quite common where I live, used for both Airsoft, to power toy guns, and Biking, to inflate tires on the go. You can find them in many sporting goods stores for just a few bucks!

Awesome video Alec!! "See you again on our ... What's this playlist called?" I love the humour and hearing your experiences of scuba. Thank you for taking the time to put these together

It seems this episode is once again a testament to creativity in the old days... nowadays things need to be brought in front of you =)

Alec, always wonderful watching your videos. You've taught me so much about the history of scuba, diving gear, and Sea Hunt. In fact your videos are the driving factor behind my entire scuba kit. Can you do a tech tip video on underwater tows/Diver Propulsion Vehicles? Thank you -Brent

Love these videos. Glad I found this channel.

Cold Guard with asbestos. Haha, this is why I’m addicted to your channel, learn something new everyday!

Oh there you go... the farallon shark dart... I have one of those somewhere...

Alec, in one of your videos, I think it was noise makers. You had covered sounding devices for signaling your dive buddy or dive boat on the surface. There was a short section that you had mentioned whistles, and stated they were great noise makers, but couldn't be used underwater. Well Don't know if you had been updated since that video, but I wanted to let you know that there is now a whistle that can be used both at the surface and underwater. It is called the wind storm. Claimed to be the loudest whistle in the world and also works underwater. I have tried this whistle and it truely does work under.It is incredibly loud. "Worlds loudest"? I don't know, but it is very loud and ear piercing. Most certainly will be heard. Just thought you might want to know if you didn't already. Love your videos, please keep them coming.

Great video Alec, the really odd thing is that acquascooters are still in production here in Italy, they were made by Arkos, then by Comer and now by "Enjoy"... the concept is pretty much the same... Most people use an acquascooter for spearfishing, but while someone just uses it to reach hotspots (the good use), there's someone who uses it to chase the fish until it hides inside a hole, so it becomes easy to catch the scared fish!!! (not a very fair use). Cheers from Italy!!!

I can imagine already, if there will be a museum one day it will be named: The Alec Peirce Vintage weird staff Museum. Of course located in Ontario Canada. In fact I would love if your vintage staff would go to a Museum but it should be keept in your family, because it's your history, so the Museum should be run by your family.

Great video, Alec. Two questions: how much did the sea scooter sell for when it was new, and were the smaller marker buoys reusable?

Aqua bell... Gotta get one of them! If you have someone you don't like just put in some extra shot.

Alec; I am sure you remember that some of the valves from Scubapro had a SPG built into valve much like the one this vbog you are showing. (Diver since 1963)

u remind me of red foreman from that 70s show cool diving gear mate

Little late to the comments here, but you can easily find those 12g CO2 cylinders from Canadian Tire, any paintball pro shop (they're used in paintball pistols), and most bike shops (for emergency tire charge kits). A 40 pack is around $35 CAD, and a smaller 12 pack is about $16.

Hi Alec, if you haven’t already, could you do a video covering vintage dive watches that you may have used prior to the advent of dive computers?

How old shsre you when you started diving? 200 yards we swam over a mile with cave dive equipment. That was twin tanks plus a single drop tank plus a tznk with O2, for decompressing. Then we had to swime back over a mile. Now you czn drive up to just out side the park. Then it was closed to cave diving. OkY that is funny the mini balloons we use ti use those kid ballons and fill them with a air sprzyer nozzle. Just took practice to not burst the balloon. Remeber the shark darts were alternatives to bang sticks. Bring back mzny memories.

great video..wonder what it be like to use that

So was decompression sickness common in the 50's and 60's or did people not go down as deep or as long "back in the day"?

The concept of the Aqua Bell hasn't faded away. They're still quite popular in tropical resorts, with SeaTrek being one brand. See, for example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ar9oT2kyfy8.html

I was always told the idea behind the shark dart was that even if they didn't die, they were now full of gas, and their buoyancy was greatly positive, meaning they were heading for the surface in a real hurry. Whatever mad genius invented the thing claimed this meant that the bleeding shark would be whisked away to the surface, avoiding the hapless diver finding themselves amid a feeding frenzy inspired by blood in the water, plus the shark, should it survive being treated like a goodyear, was no longer in a position to continue the attack and would scamper off looking for some gas-x or something. The slight problem of course is that shark blood doesn't cause sharks to frenzy, only prey blood; and if the goal is avoiding blood in the water then blowing them inside out is probably counterproductive; and sharks aren't hermetically sealed so they're not going to fill up like a balloon. This is, of course, also all parenthetical to the fact that it's a viciously cruel thing to do to a beautiful and likely endangered animal who is a minuscule danger to you as long as you have proper respect for wildlife. Then again "proper respect for wildlife" and "carrying a device to explode wildlife" are quite likely to be mutually exclusive. I have seen them show up as assassin's weapons in various video games and other fiction though, a sort of modern-day update to the old mafia icepick for the hitman who shops from Skymall magazine.

What do you know about that Lama bubble helmet?

hi alec, where do you keep all this stuff? you must have a huge room just for you scuba gear.

The Farallon Shark Dart was used in the movie Jaws.

3:24 I come in peace. Take me to your leader. Danger Will Robinson.

Aqua-Bell: What's the worst that can happen?

No i don't remember 1958.. wasn't alive for another 33 years back then ^^

There's a new old stock aquascooter going for $3,950 on ebay.

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the scooter was first built homemade by a man who used this to flee about the border from the GDR to the BRD...and it worked. Then a company used the concept and build commercial scooters, like the one you have. Here's a text about it www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/sueddeutsche-zeitung-fuer-kinder-mit-dem-aqua-scooter-in-die-freiheit-1.1008077

y am no diver but y enyoy bery much your videos , here in uruguay there is no much to see underwater the rio de la plata estuary is very muddy , in the other hand it has lots of shipwrecks and hispanic real treasures to be found ( proof of theese is the discovery of the "Preciado" a spanish galeon with a gold and silver treasure found in the 90s"

15:44 What if some nasty dude decided he could use that on something other than a shark, say someone he was pissed off at in traffic. Who would invent such a thing?