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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Scuba equipment manufacturing |
| Genre | Diving equipment |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | Bob Hollis |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Dive computers,rebreathers |
| Owner | Huish Outdoors |
| Website | www |
Oceanic is an American manufacturer ofscuba gear. It was founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and is based inSan Leandro,California, United States.[1] Its products includedive computers,rebreathers and a noveldiving 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]
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 compensators, harnesses, masks, fins, and snorkels.[3]
In 2017,Huish Outdoors acquired the Oceanic and Hollis brands from AUP.[4]
They developed the Phibian CCS50 and CCS100rebreathers;Stuart Clough ofUndersea Technologies developed the Phibian'selectronics 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.[5][6]
They have developedmilitaryrebreathers for use byfrogmen andnaval work divers, for example theUS Navy MK-25 and the MK-16 mixed-gas rebreather.
Oceanic developed the firstHUD style mask, which is an eyes-and-nosediving mask with a built-inLCD display, commercially known as aDataMask, capable of providing various dive data from an on-boarddiving computer.[7][8]
Oceanic manufactures severaldive computers forrecreational divers.[9] Oceanic's computer division Pelagic Pressure Systems was sold toAqua Lung in 2015.[10]
The company developed, in early 2008, a customwetsuit for analpha-maleAfrican penguin atSteinhart Aquarium who was suffering from problems maintainingcore body temperature due to feather loss.[11]
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