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the simple
solution
Left: The man behind
the design of the Phoenix
Nozzle, Luis Heros, suited
up in some of his classic
Most anyone with the desire
can purchase or restore a
vintage double hose regulator
gear, heads down for
another cool dip at Weeki
Wachee Springs.
to safe working order, but
most lack the physical capacity
to accommodate the additional
high and low pressure orifices
needed to accommodate such
as power inflators, submersible
pressure gauges and alternate
second stages. Because many
dive operators require such
basic items of their customers,
it can be difficult to bring
vintage gear along on many
dive excursions.
Right: With a Phoenix Nozzle
in place on this 1970’s era
AquaLung Royal AquaMaster, it
can run hoses for a SPG, power
inflator and octopus.
In order to bring his older
equipment up to modern
because it can be fitted onto the
regulator’s existing intake port,
On North Carolina’s
standards, Luis Heros created
an ingeniously simple device
he dubbed the Phoenix Nozzle
(see Underwater Journal Issue
II). An avid collector and user of
no mechanical modifications
are required – good news for
collectors who want to update
their prized gear for real-world
diving, but don’t want to degrade
Crystal Coast, you
can do more than
see history.
double hose gear, Luis went to the unit’s value with permanent
a machine shop and came back
with a solid-brass attachment
that fits between the regulator
body and the yoke connection,
modifications.
Luis’s design has become a
very popular topic of discussion on
sites such as vintagedoublehose.
On land and in the
water, you can be a
and provides three low-pressure
and high-pressure ports.
com and vintagescuba.com’s
forum sites. Some owners have
part of it.
Designed for Aqualung DA gone as far as referring to their
and Royal Aquamaster designs,
the nozzle will also fit Voit
Navy and Polaris regs. And
regs as Phoenix Aquamasters.
What was old, is new again.
www.crystalcoastnc.org
7 www.underwaterjournal.com June/July 2007