Brands

Apeks

Apeks is a scuba equipment manufacturer based in England that has been manufacturing dive equipment for about thirty five years.

This company is known primarily for their excellent regulators. These regulators have seen more than their fair share of world record deep dives and Apeks’ reputation for high quality regulators have attracted more than a few suitors.

Apeks was founded by Ken Ainscough and Eric Partington. Both men were avid divers and Ainscough used his engineering background to establish Apeks as one of the premier producers of high quality regulators.

Apeks is trusted by some of the world’s most hard-core divers. In fact, John Bennett was the first man ever to dive below 1,000 feet (300 m) and he got there using an Apex regulator. Bennett crossed the 1,000 foot mark while breathing the Apeks TX100.

Another deep diver, Bjarte Vestol, uses Apeks regulators while diving some of the coldest waters in the world. The regulators still breathe well in temperatures just above the point of freezing.

Aqua Lung

Aqua Lung is the name that first introduced the world to Scuba diving more than 60 years ago when Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emille Gagnan developed the first "Aqua-Lung." The excitement and adventurous spirit of that first dive continues today and is reflected in Aqua Lung's dedication to quality and innovation.

Mares

Mares was founded in 1949 by Italian free diving champion, Ludovica Mares and has grown to be the world's 4th largest scuba diving company.

Ludovico Mares was a former Istrian diver who served in the Austrian State Navy during the First World War. Ludovico’s small factory in Rapallo swiftly became a small industrial company. Sales increased with time, and there was never a shortage of ideas for new and better products. In the late '60s, as the passion for diving grew around the world, the company expanded on the European diving and snorkelling market.

Between 1978 and 1982, Mares earned itself an undisputed place as the global market leader in fins: today nearly all diving and snorkelling fins are produced using plastic materials according to the manufacturing process discovered by Mares. The company rose to the top of the regulator market as well.

Seac Sub

SEAC, founded in 1971, is now one of the Italian leaders in the world of diving and has carved out its own niche on an international level, thanks to a complete range of innovative products that offer functionality and reliability at an excellent quality-price ratio.

Thirty-seven years after its foundation, owner Marco Arata and his son Daniele have set out on the road to change and evolution with renewed energy, deciding to inject the sector with new blood.

Suunto

Suunto was founded in 1936 by an outdoorsman and a keen orienteering enthusiast Tuomas Vohlonen, who had long been bothered by a problem: the inaccuracy of traditional dry compasses and their lack of steady needle operation. Being an engineer with an inventive turn of mind, he discovered and patented the production method for a much steadier needle, better readings and a new level of accuracy.

In 1960s Suunto introduced its first diving compass - initiated by the divers themselves. A British diver attached a Suunto compass to his wrist, and found that the device also worked underwater.

In 1987 saw the appearance of the SME dive computer. A dive computer that fits on the wrist, combined with an electronic compass, Suunto Spyder, provided the foundation for Suunto's next market conquest, the Suunto Vector in 1998.

The Suunto Vector paved the way for the next generation of wrist computers that were developed in the new millennium. In 2004 Suunto introduced Suunto D9, the first unit that combined a dive computer and digital compass, time information and advice.

Today, Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for diving.

Technisub

Technisub, founded in 1962 by Luigi Ferraro, one of the pioneers of diving, has developed the most sophisticated technological expertise in rubber and plastic material applied to underwater equipment.

Technisub is part of Aqua-Lung International.