The Endless Acquisitions of Scuba Businesses

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Remember old favorite brands like U.S. Divers, Spirotechnique, Uwatec, Dacor, and Seaquest? They all got swallowed up in acquisitions along the way and eventually disappeared. There are fewer and fewer small businesses manufacturing diving equipment now.

American Underwater Products (Pelagic, Oceanic, Aeris, Hollis) brought up both the Prism rebreather business of Peter Readey and Kevin Gurr's Explorer rebreather business in recent years.

The Canadian drysuit company, White's, fell into bed with Scubapro for a while before becoming a company within Aqualung's remit....

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