Northern Diver - Not Just Drysuits! A sneak peak inside our Appley Bridge HQ. скачать в хорошем качестве

Northern Diver - Not Just Drysuits! A sneak peak inside our Appley Bridge HQ.

Northern Diver is the UK’s most comprehensive scuba diving equipment manufacturer and distributor, and with no pun intended, a company with hidden depths to its operation. Founded by Mike Armitage in 1979, it was the first company in the UK to make drysuits, handmade by Armitage himself in the upstairs front bedroom of a terraced house in Standish, Greater Manchester. There is however much more to Northern Diver than drysuits, something Military and Commercial Sales Director, Neil Tordoff is at pains to point out when DIVE visited its headquarters for a tour of the facilities. ‘A lot of people perceive Northern Diver to be a drysuit manufacturer, because that’s where the company started its life,’ he said. ‘But, we have a much broader product range than that. We sell to commercial customers, the oil and gas industry; we do a contaminated water suit, we have a military product range with over 2000 line items, the fire and rescue and swift water teams that we also deal with. And then, of course, recreational.’