High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oceanic is a company which currently designs and manufactures sport-type scuba gear. They were founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and are based in San Leandro, California, USA. Scuba diving ("scuba" originally being an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, although now widely considered a word in its own right) is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater for recreation, commercial or industrial reasons.