American recreational scuba equipment manufacturer
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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.[citation needed] In 2017, Huish Outdoors acquired the Oceanic and Hollis brands from AUP.[2]
Products[]
Rebreathers[]
They developed the Phibian CCS50 and CCS100 rebreathers; Stuart Clough of 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.[3][4]
They have developed militaryrebreathers for use by frogmen and naval work divers, for example the US Navy MK-25 and the MK-16 mixed-gas rebreather.
Data mask[]
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.[5][6]
Dive computers[]
Oceanic manufactures several dive computers for recreational divers. [7]
OC1, OCi
VT 4.1
Atom 3.1
Geo 2.0 Wrist Computer
VEO 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
B.U.D. Back up dive computer
Wetsuit for a penguin[]
The company developed, in early 2008, a custom wetsuit for an alpha-maleAfrican penguin at Steinhart Aquarium who was suffering from problems maintaining core body temperature due to feather loss.[8]