American Dive Co

American Dive Co was born from our passion of Diving and Spearfishing. Petros Yiannikouros PhD, Founder & CEO started spearfishing at age eight on the island of Cyprus. His first speargun was a borrowed pneumatic 40cm Seac Sub ASSO.The fish (mullets, sargo, Mediterranean sea bass) were abundant and easy to shoot but bigger fish would require a bigger gun. Petros saved enough to buy a 50cm ASSO - a gun he still owns to this day. A few years later he upgraded to a 90cm Picasso Century. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 2001, Petros moved to the US to pursue his PhD at USC. In 2005, he joined the Los Angeles Fathomiers, a historic California spearfishing club; he maintains an active membership role as a sponsor and a competitive diver to this day. In September 2007, he created a spearfishing export company under the name Excelsior Group Inc in New York.

Activities of the company included the export of high-end American made spearfishing products to the European market. By the Spring of 2012, he used the export experience he gained to start importing and distribution of elite European brands such as Picasso, Bleutec, Meandros, and Pathos. His passion has been to share the knowledge of these lines with fellow spearfisherman and women here in America. Initially, the business revolved around carbon fins and European style guns and it slowly expanded to a full line of products by various European brands. Slowly the small California garage operation became the largest and most influential spearfishing and freediving distribution company in the US.  We proudly represent and manufacture some of the largest Diving companies in the world.