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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 underwater diving, divers, boating, boaters, List of water sports, water sports enthusiasts, and others wh ...
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, 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,
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, Voit, Dacor, and Swimaster.


External links


The Spearfisherman Frogman Suits
nbsp;— reproduction of a 1951 print advertisement in ''The Skin Diver'' for Spearfisherman Frogman Suits. Retrieved on 25 April 2019.
Vintage Scuba Supply Community Forum
nbsp;— discussion thread of early diving gear companies. Retrieved on 25 April 2019. Defunct companies based in California Underwater diving engineering Underwater diving equipment manufacturers {{Underwater-diving-stub