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Vintage Scuba: The Amazing "Hope-Page" Mouthpiece - S04E14

1,913 views · Published 5 April 2018 · 14:20 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Alec Peirce Scuba · 2018 · Sports

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Today's divers quickly learn the skills to remove, replace and purge their second stage.  Alec shows why in the early days, losing your mouthpiece was a serious problem until two divers invented an amazing non-return mouthpiece. 

*** In this episode of Vintage Scuba *** 
- "The Science of Skin and Scuba Diving" 1957 book and its  famous authors was the first  comprehensive text on the sport
- "The New Science of Skin and Scuba Diving" 1965 text book based on the original but revised due to many changes in scuba
- an original "single hose" two hose from regulator air in to exhaust
- Rory Page & Charles Hope patented the "Hope-Page" non-return valve mouthpiece
- Rory Page was a diving instructor at the Long Beach California YMCA with his friend Charles Hope
- initially sold for $7.95 in the 1960 Healthways catalogue
- divers no longer needed to rotate to purge water from the exhaust hose with this new mouthpiece
- the Hope-Page mouthpiece replaced the single hose mouthpiece with non-return "mushroom" valves

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VINTAGE SCUBA playlists
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