BC Question

[simonbeans]

What is the difference between the horsecollar BCs from Seatec and those from Selpac? Thanks
Allan

[dhaas]

Allan,

Seatec was a different company than Selpac, also known and advertised as Sherwood Selpac I'm pretty sure.

They both produced front mounted BCs and then migrated into jacket styles, plus back mounted "wings" in the 1980s. Nemrod has one of teh back mounted BCs in some of his photos. Somewhere along the line they dropped the Selpac name....

I had a back-mounted "wing" by Seaquest on my standard backpack in the 1980s when I owned my dive store. I HATED (and still do!) jacket style BCs.....Having one of those "wings" was as close to diving with just a backpack as you could get back then and still be "legal", i.e. having a BC on so the PADI Police didn't convict you of unsafe diving

Hope this helps!

Dave Haas

www.haasimages.com

[JES]

It doesn't answer your original question but here's some information about Selpac as posted on VSS:

Re: Sportsways addresses and dates, Sea-Vue gauges
Post by JohnA on Mar 23, 2006, 6:04am

... It seems from what I have read that Sherwood and Selpac were two distinct companies that merged but stayed separate entities. They later split and were totally separate companies that continued to sell scuba and industrial gas equipment. Later Selpac and White Stag merged and formed Ocean Dynamics, don’t know what happened to them after that. Sherwood obviously has continued to prosper.

John