American-Made Wholesale Scuba Gear
Our wholesale scuba gear has been a dive shop favorite for decades. Engineered from healthcare-grade materials and manufactured in the united states, our scuba diving gear combines quality with our signature factory-direct prices. Here’s what our longterm customers love about our scuba gear:
Remains flexible in cold waters
Jaw-fatigue resistant mouthpiece design
Manufactured in America
Offered at factory-direct prices
High-elongation hypoallergenic, 100% medical grade silicone material
Looking to stock up on dive shop essentials? Check out our e-commerce store, SiliconeGear, for wholesale scuba gear at factory-direct prices. Interested in designing your own product? We are open to product development partnerships with designers looking for shared investment in a high-volume job.
American-Made Wholesale Scuba Gear
Casco Bay Molding’s scuba diving gear is a longtime favorite at the annual DEMA trade show for a reason: Not only is our gear thoughtfully-designed in partnership with dive instructors and other experts, but all of our products are made from 100% medical-grade silicone and manufactured at our facility in Maine.
7 Wholesale Scuba Diving Equipment Essentials
Standard Regulator Mouthpiece: Our best-selling mouthpiece, great for divers with medium to small mouths looking for a jaw-fatigue-resistant design and premium quality. The Standard Mouthpiece has slightly thinner sidewalls than the Longbite Mouthpiece, an overbite top/bottom feature, and an ample bite plate.
Long Bite Regulator Mouthpiece: The Longbite was developed in partnership with Ethan Gordon, an internationally-known scuba photojournalist, and dive instructor. It’s designed so that a diver’s mouth may almost rest during a dive, and bite down on different places during the course of the dive.
Kids Regulator Mouthpiece: A great option (available in a variety of fun colors) for younger divers. Like all Casco Bay Molding wholesale scuba gear, the Kids Mouthpiece is also made from 100% medical-grade silicone.
Snorkel Keeper: Designed to allow divers to detach their snorkel and store it inside their vest during a dive, then re-attach it when returning to the surface. The Snorkel Keeper is also engineered from high-elongation silicone.
Regulator Octopus Necklace: The Regulator Necklace, also known as the Octopus “Octo” Necklace is designed to be heavier than water so that it does not float over your head or neck. The Regulator Necklace may function as a way to hold additional gear.
Octopus Strap: A durable way to hold your second regulator, the Octopus Strap is available in UV-resistant safety yellow. It’s an affordable, durable, and safe addition to your scuba gear.
AL40 & AL80 Tank Strap: Ideal for securing equipment, hoses, and photography gear, the Tank Strap is available in two sizes, compatible with a majority of tanks.
Setting the Standard for Quality
What sets our diving gear apart? For starters, all products sold by Casco Bay Molding are manufactured by us, too. Our factory is located in Sanford, Maine. Not only do we sell wholesale dive equipment, but we’re also an ISO:13485 certified medical device manufacturer. In other words, we bring the same attention to detail, quality control, and material traceability to our wholesale scuba gear, too.
Here are a few of our customers’ favorite things about SiliconeGear dive equipment:
Made in the USA: That translates to guaranteed high quality and faster shipping times.
100% high elongation medical-grade silicone: Your dive shop needs the most durable gear that does what it’s supposed to do in extremely cold waters. That’s why we use special high elongation material, not cheap rubber alternatives or fillers.
Thoughtfully designed in partnership with dive experts: Our founder, Andrew Powell, is a scuba diver. Many of our products were also designed in partnership with avid divers and underwater photographers. Beyond that, the wholesale scuba gear you see on our site today is the result of decades of user feedback. We put your dive experience first.
Factory-direct prices: You can’t beat factory-direct prices — especially when the product is manufactured in America.
Wholesale Scuba Gear: Developing the Long Bite Mouthpiece
Several years ago, we developed the Long-Bite Scuba Mouthpieces with Mr. Ethan Gordon, dive instructor, and internationally known scuba photojournalist. Casco Bay Molding’s Andy P. visited several dive shops with Ethan, purchasing multiple scuba mouthpieces for test and comparison, with the design goal: provide a scuba mouthpiece with maximum comfort by minimizing jaw fatigue. After sampling, measuring & inspecting the various mouthpieces we evolved a preliminary design with the following characteristics:
Longer bite plate so mouthpieces could almost rest in a diver’s mouth or diver could bite down on different part of the mouthpiece bite plate during the course of the dive.
Top and Bottom on the mouthpiece to compensate for the natural overbite most people have.
Silicone Material: Produce a mouthpiece from the best material possible: Healthcare Grade, Class VI Liquid Silicone Rubber.
We introduced the LB-MP at the DEMA trade show in 2013 and solicited customer and distribution partner feedback on this new product. After customer Feedback the following design enhancements were made:
Breathing hole internal “regulator stop-rib”
Bite plate/teeth locating ridge
Per Casco Bay Molding’s ISO Verification and Validation product development feedback loop, we again sent multiple product samples to customers and distributors for testing. We received favorable results and began to produce and sell our long bite mouthpiece directly to dive stores via our product website, and through our distribution partner, Trident.
Wholesale Scuba Gear: Developing the Octopus Second Regulator Holder
After speaking with our customers and surveying the “Octo 2nd Regulator Holders” available in the market, we decided to develop a reasonably priced, durable, safe, 2nd Regulator Holder / Octopus Holder.
2nd Regulator Octo Strap Design Goals:
Simple and easy for divers to use
Durable
Safe: Bright yellow, Octo Strap to remain elastic under most conditions
UV Resistant (dive boat decks can be a warm place)
Simple/cost-effective to manufacture
Our design team simplified the Octo Keeper or Octo Strap making one part out of what was a two or three-part assembly. By producing parts with Day Glow Yellow, healthcare-grade, class VI, high-elongation silicone rubber, instead of hard plastic and stiff thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), we dramatically improved the parts’ physical properties.
Customer feedback was achieved by again working with our installed base of Scuba mouthpiece customers. They overwhelmingly approved (validated) the design. Scuba divers were especially pleased with the Octo Strap’s high elongation silicone’s ability to remain flexible even in very cold seawater.
Wholesale Scuba Gear: Developing the Standard Mouthpiece
As a follow-up product to our long bite scuba mouthpieces, we developed a Standard Scuba Mouthpiece. Our design goal was to provide a supple mouthpiece for normal and smaller size mouths while still maintaining our LB-MP design features that help reduce jaw fatigue.
We designed the Standard mouthpiece with slightly thinner sidewalls, an ample bite plate, overbite top/bottom feature, and produced from our healthcare-grade, Class VI Liquid Silicone Rubber. After marketplace feedback validation, we invested in a two-cavity mold that runs with a fully automatic take-out robot which reduces our labor costs, and therefore, our customer’s costs.
Wholesale Scuba Gear: Developing the Snorkel Keeper
Our next Scuba product was designed and developed with Mr. David Prichard of Enchanted Sea Images. Like our other products, our Detachable Scuba Snorkel Keeper was customer tested and validated. The snorkel keeper design allows the diver to detach their snorkel, store it inside their vest and re-attach the snorkel after surfacing as required. Some innovative divers use our snorkel keeper to hold their torch (diver light) sideways on their mask straps.
Like the Casco Bay Molding Octo Strap, we produced the Detachable Snorkel Keeper from a high elongation, healthcare-grade, Class VI, liquid silicone rubber providing durability and UV resistance.
Wholesale Scuba Gear: Developing the Octopus Regulator Necklace
The High Elongation Silicone Octo Necklace was the fourth Scuba product Casco Bay Molding developed. The Octo Necklace functions as a secondary regulator holder. Technical divers, Cave diver and underwater photographers use the Silicone Octo Necklace to hold various gear close to them in tight places.
Octo Necklace Design Goals:
Heavier than Water: Our Octo Necklace does not float off over your head/neck. The 100% Liquid Silicone Rubber has a specific gravity making it heavier than water.
UV Resistance: Our Silicone colorant and high-quality silicone does not break down in UV light.
Elasticity: Coldwater elasticity is important for safety and durability
Cross Section: Casco Bay Molding’s Octo Necklace’s high-quality Silicone allows for a solid, thinner cross-section with better physical characteristics.
We achieved these goals by learning from a Chinese produced-Vinyl based Thermoplastic Elastomeric (TPE) Necklaces. Again, we closed the design loop by submitting trial samples to our distributors and customers for testing, receiving overwhelming validation and approval.