Does anyone know where the Sphera and Marina are made (I mean in which country they're manufactured: Italy, Taiwan, China, Usa, others?).
I know this question came in october, but went through this thread just now: as far as I know technisub is from Genova (Italy) and since rubber and expecially plastic materials have been for a while a domain where italians had their own experience I wan't be surprised that they are actually made in Italy as staded on the mask.
If you read from
TECHNISUB - ABOUT US and check the address of the factory
TECHNISUB - CONTACTS and then you compare with the address of the aquasphere
Chi siamo - Aquasphere
you might imply they have surely a relationship.. after all the aquasphere logo is an "evolution" of the technisub logo.
This should not be so surprising since you probaly are aware where
CRESSI has its headquarters. Not too far (30 km), in Rapallo you also find
Mares - stand for diving and some of its brand like
Sporasub - Sulla rotta tracciata dall’istinto.
OK boring stuff I know. Didn't mean to show off, it is just that I am from Genova, and this is a kind of "everybody knows" thing.. sorry if I bothered someone.
Myself I have a seac extreme
SEAC SUB S.p.A. - Join the Passion (even them based in Rapallo's inland) but I have no idea if it is as good as the marina.. probably not because came out in year 2000 being now a 7 years old design. The sphera (which is even older anyway) in my opinion belong to another cathegory since has no glass lenses, even if I agree it is a wonderful mask (I use even the "seal" very often).
Ciao, Matteo.
PS Egidio and Nanni Cressi started in 1946, I guess at that time they did not imported much from Taiwan or China..