Info Aqualung Financial Troubles

[BoundForElsewhere]

Just needs one little tweak to make it perfect.

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That reg always reminds me of the Borg.

 

[USdiver1]

US Divers / Aqualung equipment? Let's start with regulators. My collection is around 28 - 30 of various models from a "green label" Broxton [circa 1953] up to numerous 21st century models: Legend, new Mistral, and Kronos. I still dive with Super Rocket fins, and have since 1978. Favorite BFKs like the bicentennial edition Sea Hawk. I could go on and on. About the only piece of equipment that I don't really look to USD/AL for is a BCD. Never really cared for BCs, and when I dive with one, it is usually a back plate with a Dive-Rite wing, or a Mares poodle jacket.
I'm sure that the next phase of AL will not resemble their past, too bad, we are all the poorer for it.

 

[Endler's]

Exterminate?

 

[jellycatsdad]

Just needs one little tweak to make it perfect.

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I dive a smaller version of those - Proton Metals. Also a sexy reg, but NLA. Both have lineage from Voit’s first single-hose setup.

 

[jellycatsdad]

considering how healthy the crowds are at ski resorts when the powder comes in and the fact that not everybody looks like an AARP member compared to the scuba crowd, I would say the ski industry has done a lot better about growth recently than the scuba industry.

Don’t forget Mares and SSI are owned by Head Sports - who also makes skis(Head) and tennis gear(Head and Penn).

Both scuba and skiing/snowboarding aren’t immune to climate change, but one is also much more accessible despite the fact it’s getting more corporate. Vail and Alterra are on a buying spree of ski resorts, here in NorCal except for Homewood, Sierra at Tahoe, Dodge Ridge, Sugar Bowl and Boreal/Soda Springs(Powdr), it’s an almost duopoly between Vail(Heavenly/Kirkwood/Northstar) and Alterra(Palisades). As for gear, for the lone exceptions of Burton, Never Summer and Capita on the snowboarding side, as well as a few esoteric brands for skiing, there’s a lot of consolidation with snow gear - mostly with Amer Sports(Salomon), Rossignol and K2. I have a feeling Aqualung will be snapped up by one of the current majors for dive gear, or even IST in Taiwan might make a play for it. I think Amer might be involved with scuba via Suunto.

I’ve been noticing a younger crowd in Monterey and on social media but scuba does have an age problem. I feel like a kid around some folks.

 

[Wibble]

Both scuba and skiing/snowboarding aren’t immune to climate change,

Scuba will benefit from more water and warmer temperatures.

Maybe flying will be more expensive but it’ll allegedly be warmer in northern climes.

 

[scubadada]

Scuba will benefit from more water and warmer temperatures.

Maybe flying will be more expensive but it’ll allegedly be warmer in northern climes.

Maybe for you, the Caribbean will be destroyed

 

[lexvil]

Maybe for you, the Caribbean will be destroyed

Dead reefs are so attractive, even the warmer northern waters will see massive dies offs but no worry some newer life forms will move in after a few thousand years.

 

[Wibble]

Maybe for you, the Caribbean will be destroyed

Not in the near future

 

[Still Kicking]

Scuba's problem is that younger generation sees diving as an experience (only now and then) not a lifestyle commitment. Most new divers have no motivation to buy gear, continue education, go on to teach etc.

Not in the near future

Judging from reports here, many Caribbean reefs are already in bad shape. It's only getting worse.