Oceanic is an American manufacturer of

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gear. It was founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and is based in

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, United States. Its products include dive computers,

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and a novel

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incorporating a heads-up-display of information.

History

In 1972, Robert Hollis founded the parent company American Underwater Products which did business as Oceanic. In 2017, Huish Outdoors acquired the Oceanic and Hollis brands from AUP.

Products

Rebreathers

They developed the Phibian CCS50 and CCS100

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s; Stuart Clough of Undersea Technologies developed the Phibian's

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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. They have developed

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for use by

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and naval work divers, for example the

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MK-25 and the MK-16 mixed-gas rebreather.

Data mask

Oceanic developed the first HUD style mask, which is an eyes-and-nose

with a built-in LCD display, commercially known as a DataMask, capable of providing various dive data from an on-board

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Dive computers

Oceanic manufactures several

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s for recreational divers. Oceanic's computer division Pelagic Pressure Systems was sold to Aqua Lung in 2015. * 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

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for an alpha-male

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at Steinhart Aquarium who was suffering from problems maintaining core body temperature due to feather loss.

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