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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Scuba equipment manufacturing |
Genre | Diving equipment |
Founded | 1972 |
Founder | Bob Hollis |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Dive computers, rebreathers |
Owner | Huish Outdoors |
Website |
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Oceanic is an American manufacturer of scuba gear. It was founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and is based in San Leandro, California, United States. [1] Its products include dive computers, rebreathers and a novel diving mask incorporating a heads-up-display of information.
In 1972, Robert Hollis founded the parent company American Underwater Products which did business as Oceanic. [2] In 2017, Huish Outdoors acquired the Oceanic and Hollis brands from AUP. [3]
They developed the Phibian CCS50 and CCS100 rebreathers; Stuart Clough of Undersea Technologies developed the Phibian's electronics package. With its purpose-built training facility, Oceanic UK working closely with American Divers International, developed and delivered by both Stuart Clough and Paul Morrall training and familiarisation courses. [4] [5]
They have developed military rebreathers for use by frogmen and naval work divers, for example the US Navy MK-25 and the MK-16 mixed-gas rebreather.
Oceanic developed the first HUD style mask, which is an eyes-and-nose diving mask with a built-in LCD display, commercially known as a DataMask, capable of providing various dive data from an on-board diving computer. [6] [7]
Oceanic manufactures several dive computers for recreational divers. [8] Oceanic's computer division Pelagic Pressure Systems was sold to Aqua Lung in 2015. [9]
The company developed, in early 2008, a custom wetsuit for an alpha-male African penguin at Steinhart Aquarium who was suffering from problems maintaining core body temperature due to feather loss. [10]
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