In 1972, Robert Hollis founded the parent company American Underwater Products which did business as Oceanic.
[2] Aeris, Originally also a brand of American Underwater Products, founded in 1998, was merged with Oceanic in 2014.
The Aeris brand covered a wide range of recreational scuba equipment, including regulators, dive computers, buoyancy compensators, harnesses, masks, fins, and snorkels.
[9] Oceanic's computer division Pelagic Pressure Systems was sold to Aqua Lung in 2015.
[10] 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.