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  Someone wrote:-
> the absence of a BC seems strange since it would fit
> right onto your harness/ backplate without causing any clutter.

  "Dave Sutton" <pilots@na*.ne*> wrote:-
> Well, please remember that the majority of my diving was done
> long before there were such things as backplates. We use(d)
> the old military 5 point harnesses (which are -still the most
> comfortable harnesses, bar none). ...

I also remember diving before backplates; the cylinder rested directly 
against my back. Few wore divers' lifejackets, and if a modern stab-jacket had 
fallen through from the future, it would likely have been sent straight to 
Area 51 in case it was a bit of UFO pilot's kit.

But in these days of stabs, who sells plain old-type aqualung cylinder 
harnesses any more?, like on fireman's breathing sets, and on e.g. spray-packs 
and flamethrowers.
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