Company
Our Heritage
BARE's history really starts with the beginning of FitzWright, which was founded in 1972 as a partnership between Jeremy Fitzgibbon and Jim Cartwright. Jeremy and Jim were both commercial divers who used their intimate dive knowledge to introduce a superior custom-fit neoprene diving suit to a burgeoning market.
As the years went on, FitzWright's reputation for manufacturing first-rate diving suits grew. At the same time in the late 1970's windsurfing hit the scene creating a whole new category of surface water sport. The emergence and rapid growth of this new category presented an opportunity for FitzWright's current wetsuits to be re-designed and re-purposed for this new sport.
At this time it was decided that a separate name and identity should be used for this new range of water sport suits. In 1980 the BARE brand was born. Since then, the BARE brand has evolved to encompass all of FitzWright's products in the scuba diving, watersport and fishing categories. The only exceptions are the original survival suits, which are still manufactured under the FitzWright name.
Today, we are a global leader in wetsuits and drysuits with distribution in over 50 countries.
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