Sports Suits of Australia

30/03/2020

Photo shoot for a new SSA poster which included a guy to keep the girls happy!

11/09/2019

This is how I transformed underwater photography with my "Sports Suit" (AKA "Dive Skin") For the first time divers could be as colorful as the marine life.

02/07/2019

03/03/2019

https://vimeo.com/320980836

10/24/1990... Dive trip out of Fort Lauderdale, FL with well known diving celebrities. Neal Watson / Frank Hammett & Hal Watts. The captain was Mark Rose and…

14/09/2018

https://vimeo.com/289924902

In 1984 in Sydney Australia, the Wooloomooloo Bay Hotel asked us if we would do a swimsuit "Fashion Parade" to attract patrons for their Christmas celebration.…

05/09/2018

SSA was approached by underwater photographers to create an underwater camouflage dive skin. There were a certain number of fish that they could not photograph because they were so skittish that they could not get close enough to take good pictures. It was impossible to make the suit the same color as water since the color changes depending on the depth of water you are in.We realized that the fish were quite comfortable swimming around coral and rocks so why not look like a rock? Hence the 'Natureskin" was born. Fish are scared seeing bubbles so the way it worked was the underwater photographer wearing the suit, would take a deep breath and hold it while swimming towards the fish... and Viola, it worked!

10/06/2018

Daring Designs is how SSA started. Swimsuit designer and Manufacturer in 1980 who became a scuba diver and the rest is history.

10/06/2018

SSA suits for Queensland 'Surf Lifesavers' to protect against the "Box" jellyfish (Chrinora Fleckeri) whose stings can be fatal.

10/06/2018

Scuba Times 1991 calendar.

09/06/2018

It all started on a scuba dive in Hawaii wearing a "unitard" for a test. I found out that it protected me from coral cuts and fire coral. Have you ever tried to cut a ripe tomato with a blunt knife? To cut the tomato you have to first pe*****te the tough outer skin and then you can cut it. The 'Dive Skin' is the tough outer layer and your body is the soft center, that is why the coral didn't cut me. I then realized what I had discovered and so the 'Dive Skin' was born.

09/06/2018

Dive Into The Future

09/06/2018

Australasian Post April 15th 1982

09/06/2018

Australasian Post "Too Hot To Handle" August 28 1980

08/06/2018

08/06/2018

What happens when a swimsuit designer and manufacturer becomes a scuba diver? In 1981 Tony Farmer invented the 'Sports Suit' which is now called a 'Dive Skin'. This colorful scuba suit revolutionized the scuba diving industry in protection, comfort, warmth, increased 'bottom times' and underwater photography.