

Fraud with diving equipment could potentially have far greater life threatening consequences if it is to be used for historical diving purposes. This is because you do not have to rely on banknotes or stamps in a way you have to rely on your diving equipment while diving with it. Personally I believe it is even worse selling imitation diving apparatus and claiming that it is a genuine, than forging banknotes or stamps. Somehow they always seem to get away with their scams, maybe because the people who discover they have bought a fake helmet from a crooked dealer would rather try and sell it on to recoup their losses.

When a person forges a bank note or even a stamp they risk up to 20 years in prison, but until today I have not heard of any dealer being punished for selling a fake diving helmet as a genuine one.
