Healthways was a firm which made
scuba gear.
Dick Klein founded it. It went bankrupt in 1963; its successor company is
Scubapro. It was one of the five original USA diving gear makers:
U.S. Divers,
Healthways,
Voit,
Dacor,
Swimaster.
Healthways is notable in that it was the first manufacturer to use "scuba" as a word rather than an acronym; in fact, their twin-hose regulator line was called the "Scuba"; hence, one of their later models, the Scuba Pro, eventually became the name of reorganized company. (Healthways' single-hose regulators were dubbed the "Scubair" line.)
External links
- http://www.fathomspub.com/cgi/interview.pl/9/index.html
- http://www.portagequarry.com/legendarticles/miller_070705.htm