Johnson Outdoors#Scubapro
Scubapro is a manufacturer of scuba diving equipment. Scubapro employs over 400 employees in 17 offices in 13 countries on 4 continents. The company is in addition to other manufacturers in the area of personal watercraft, marine electronics, diving equipment and outdoor gear to Johnson Outdoors Inc., an outdoor group headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin. In Germany Scubapro has been represented since 1975 with a seat that is since mid-2007 in Wendelstein near Nuremberg.
History
Scubapro was founded in 1962 as a subsidiary of the company Healthways. After Healthways was end of 1962, nearly insolvent, the division Scubapro 1963 was sold to the newly founded by Gustav dalla Valle Underwater Sports Inc. for a symbolic dollar. Along with Dick Bonin developed dalla Valle, the strategy of selling exclusively through professional diving facilities. They brought, among others, the MK 2 and a bottle valve with integrated pressure gauge on the market in the first year.
In 1970, Samuel C. Johnson Johnson Outdoors to bring together several brands in the leisure sector, and acquired in 1974 Scubapro.
In 1997, merged with Scubapro Uwatec. Uwatec was founded in Switzerland in 1983 as a manufacturer of diving articles and gained in 1987 with the introduction of the revolutionary at this time Aladin computer per a very good reputation as a dive computer manufacturers. In the early 90s, was a synonym for Uwatec dive computer. Uwatec today develops and manufactures exclusively dive computers (up to about 2011 Scubapro Uwatec - ) are under the label Scubapro on the market.