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Until the 1950s in Britain Siebe Gorman kept aqualungs expensive, and many British sport divers had to use home-made breathing sets and ex-armed forces or ex-industry rebreathers, and some became expert at home-making scuba diving demand Regulator s from industrial parts such as Calor Gas regulators. Finally Hugh Oswell at Submarine Products Ltd designed round the Cousteau-Gagnan patent and made Sport Diving breathing sets accessibly cheap. Submarine Products Ltd were the first company to make Scuba Sets readily available to the public in England. They developed a unique diver delivery vehicle (the Subskimmer ), and were important for introducing high quality plastics (eg ABS ) into the manufacture of underwater breathing apparatus. They for many years supplied their Black Prince regulators and other Open Circuit equipment to the British Navy . When the British Navy decided to purchase foreign competitors' Closed Circuit Equipment , export became increasingly difficult and Submarine Products Ltd closed down in 1990 after financial difficulties. |
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