Spearfisherman was a company that made
dry suit
A dry suit or drysuit provides the wearer with environmental protection by way of thermal insulation and exclusion of water, and is worn by divers, boaters, water sports enthusiasts, and others who work or play in or near cold or contaminated ...
s and
fin
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s. Located in
Huntington Beach, California, Arthur Brown started it in or before 1945 and sold it to Swimaster in about 1955, which, in turn, was sold to the
Voit Rubber Company in the early 1960s.
Swimaster was one of the five original United States diving equipment manufacturers:
U.S. Divers,
Healthways
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,
Voit
Voit (official name: "Industrias Voit S.A. de C.V.") is a sports equipment manufacturing company based in Mexico. The company was founded by German Americans, German American entrepreneur William J. Voit (1880–1946) of Worthington, Indiana. Cu ...
,
Dacor, and Swimaster.
External links
The Spearfisherman Frogman Suitsnbsp;— reproduction of a 1951 print advertisement in ''The Skin Diver'' for Spearfisherman Frogman Suits. Retrieved on 25 April 2019.
Vintage Scuba Supply Community Forumnbsp;— discussion thread of early diving gear companies. Retrieved on 25 April 2019.
Defunct companies based in California
Diving engineering
Diving equipment manufacturers
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