Actually, you are better off making a list of features that you want your new gear to have, then finding equipment that fulfills your criteria. Where it's made is not nearly as important as usability, fit, and quality.
Any Masks or other SCUBA Gear Made IN USA?
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Actually, you are better off making a list of features that you want your new gear to have, then finding equipment that fulfills your criteria. Where it's made is not nearly as important as usability, fit, and quality.
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Not so sure, fins, regs, gauges aren't. Perhaps some of the smaller stuff is.
The BCD's and BPW's are, upon checking. I knew that I had seen "Made in the USA" there somewhere.
It's nice to see that listed as a criteria, from a northernly neighbourly perspective.
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I know Oxycheq wings are made in the US. I own three of them.
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Virtually everything DeepSeaSupply sells is designed, and manufactured in Pasadena California, USA.
We do all Water Jet cutting, Finishing and Forming for our Back plates and misc plate cut hardware in house.
We also design and produce all necessary fixtures and forming dies.
We do all the RF welding associated with all DSS inflatable.
We also design and produce all necessary RF welding dies and fixtures
We injection mold almost all molded items we offer including all fittings, grommets and specialty items in house. About the only thing we don't make are the power inflators.
We also design and manufacture the required injection molds. We maintain over 30 scuba related molds in the current rotation.
We do all cutting and sewing using cutting tables, CAD generated patterns, and water jet cut patterns. Our sewing shop features 10 commercial sewing machines.
In addition we machine various Delrin and Stainless Steel items using various CNC Mills, Lathes, Grinders and WaterJet Table.
If possible we source our input materials from domestic sources and mills. (While the majority of our major materials are domestic there are a few items that are nearly impossible to buy from domestic sources)
My first choice is always to do the task in house with domestic materials.
Tobin
We do all Water Jet cutting, Finishing and Forming for our Back plates and misc plate cut hardware in house.
We also design and produce all necessary fixtures and forming dies.
We do all the RF welding associated with all DSS inflatable.
We also design and produce all necessary RF welding dies and fixtures
We injection mold almost all molded items we offer including all fittings, grommets and specialty items in house. About the only thing we don't make are the power inflators.
We also design and manufacture the required injection molds. We maintain over 30 scuba related molds in the current rotation.
We do all cutting and sewing using cutting tables, CAD generated patterns, and water jet cut patterns. Our sewing shop features 10 commercial sewing machines.
In addition we machine various Delrin and Stainless Steel items using various CNC Mills, Lathes, Grinders and WaterJet Table.
If possible we source our input materials from domestic sources and mills. (While the majority of our major materials are domestic there are a few items that are nearly impossible to buy from domestic sources)
My first choice is always to do the task in house with domestic materials.
Tobin
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Ah yes Tobin, can't believe, my self included, no one mentioned the obvious. Humble apologies.
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I'm pretty sure the regs aren't - they look too similar to the HOG, DGX lines made by ODS in Taiwan. Plus the ODS brand itself. ODS
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They are not. As in not made in the US.
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Nor are they made by ODS! :-O
The XT line moved from ODS due to some issues they had with them *not quality related btw*, so I'm 99% confident they're made by WMD which is right next door. All of their soft goods are made in NY, the O2ptima is made here as is the Nitek, but regs/fins/masks etc are imported. No one can really afford to do that anymore...
I'm not sure which wetsuits are still made here, but none of the big brands that I know of. USIA and DUI drysuits are still made here. Henderson used to, but most if not all of their stuff is imported. Cutting and sewing is just too expensive in the US for most companies to justify it. Milling doesn't make sense to export because it is power hungry and labor lean so it makes sense and is often cheaper to keep it here.
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