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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.
