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Oceanic is a company which currently designs and manufactures sport-type scuba gear. They were founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and are based in San Leandro, California, USA.
They developed the Phibian CCS50 and CCS100 rebreathers; Stuart Clough of Undersea Technologies developed the Phibian's electronics package.[1][1]
They have developed military rebreathers for use by frogmen and naval work divers, for example the US Navy MK-25 and the MK-16 mixed-gas rebreather.
There were unconfirmed reports that Oceanic was going to bring out a new rebreather around October 2006. [2].
Oceanic developed the first HUD style mask, which is an eyes-and-nose diving mask with a built-in LCD display capable of providing various dive data from an on-board diving computer.[2][3][4]
The company developed, in early 2008, a custom wetsuit for an alpha-male African Penguin at Steinhart Aquarium who was suffering from problems maintaining core body temperature due to feather loss.[5]