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Don't hack apart those USD streamlined triples !! - they're a neat artifact
of diving history.
I was told some years ago, and have no idea if it was true, that at the
time Cousteau was experimenting with multiple very high pressure tanks in a
streamlined shell, and the USD product was an attempt to create a consumer
"lookalike" version which ended up somewhat pointless since it had all the
complexity without the capacity of the real thing.
Anyhow, they still are a fun piece of hardware. To really appreciate them,
try a set warm water (no-neoprene) diving. Leave your BC, oct, console,
pony, etc.etc.. behind, weight like we did in the old days - you'll feel
like Rocketman.
Cousteau's divers,incidently, still dive this way, routinely, down to
270/80. No BCs or consoles, old SS DH Mistrals tweaked to handle
preposterous pressures from composite tanks in streamline housings.

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