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Advanced Diving Equipment Company – American manufacturer of surface supplied diving helmets – Swindell free-flow open circuit air helmets. [1]Aeris (dive gear) – American brand of scuba equipment Originally a brand of American Underwater Products, founded in 1998, and merged into a sister-brand, Oceanic, in 2014.
Pages in category "Underwater diving equipment manufacturers" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The "Aqua-Lung" regulator was created by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan in 1943. [5]In 1946, the company known as La Spirotechnique (now Aqua Lung International) was established by both men together with Jean Delorme, CEO of Air Liquide, as a division of Air Liquide to sell the Aqua-Lung regulators.
Life insurance companies usually inquire about an applicant's diving history. People who dive to 100 feet or more can pay as much as $5 more for every $1000 on their life insurance premiums.
Healthways was a firm founded by Dick Klein which made scuba gear. [4] It went bankrupt in 1963; its successor company is Scubapro. It was one of the five original USA diving gear makers: U.S. Divers, Healthways, Voit, Dacor, Swimaster. Healthways is notable in that it was the first manufacturer to use "scuba" as a word
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In 1972, Robert Hollis founded the parent company American Underwater Products which did business as Oceanic. [2] Aeris, Originally also a brand of American Underwater Products, founded in 1998, was merged with Oceanic in 2014. The Aeris brand covered a wide range of recreational scuba equipment, including regulators, dive computers, buoyancy ...
SCUBA became the generic term for any type of self-contained breathing set for diving, and soon the acronym SCUBA became a common noun – "scuba" – all in lower-case. "Scuba" was a trademark for a time – used by Healthways, now known as Scubapro – one of the competitors of U.S. Divers. [citation needed]