
DOXA SUB 300 Professional 'Blacklung' Reissue
Why We Love It Vintage DOXA are some of the coolest divers we can think of, and we'll seek out any opportunity to trumpet their awesometude. And while their glory days were the late 1960s and early 1970s, the brand is still around, and in recent years has created some incredible contemporary tributes to their legendary forefathers. Take this beauty: a reissue of the original Sub 300 Professional "Blacklung." Jacques Cousteau, the father of SCUBA diving, wore DOXAs in his expeditions, and loved them so much that he offered them for sale through his company, U.S. Divers. The earliest prototype Sub 300s that were retailed by U.S. Divers featured a distinctive 'full color' Aqua Lung logo, which gave rise to the nickname “Blacklung.” Very few of these were produced as they were deemed to difficult to read, with subsequent models featuring a 'skeletonized' logo version in its place. In 2017, DOXA released a limited edition homage to the Sub 300 in honor of the model’s 50th anniversary—one