Hey, EZ, those triples were old US Diver Jaques Cousteau special edition 
units. The consist of 3 30cuft pony's on a V-shaped manifold with plastic 
covers. Very cool looking but what you wound up with was a 75lb 90cuft. 
cylin. I got my old pony bottle from a guy who bought a bunch of these 
for peanuts and was breaking them down. In retrospect they are an 
interesting relic, a monument to stroke marketing in the dive industry.

Notice how one dude had some decent air and a drysuit, while the other 
bozo had the JC special and a wetsuit. The show inferred that they were 
at 300ft. on nitrox. Why do they even bother if they can't get the basic 
facts correct.

   Jim

On 10/23/97 10:42 AM H2O Caver wrote:

>
>	I must just be lucky-every time I sit down to feed my daughter at night I
>	just happen to catch the latest strokery on tv. SeaTek on TLC had the
>	Bonne Terre mines being dived by some guy, and the narrator had no
>	clue as to what was going on in the shots. Did anyone see this and note
>	the tripple's rig with the weird valve dealy. Or did anyone see the good
>	free advert's from the huge D.R. stickers on the Brand new 120's. 
>	There was no line in the mine (that was visible on the tv), yet the divers
>	were using "cave diving technique" to reach the uncharted sections.
>	There was the usual strokery-buttmounting, using wrong hose, freediving
>	fins, yadda yadda yadda...  Oh well,at least it was a good laugh, for
>	my daughter-EZ 

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