Dottie Frazier

• Legends of Diving Article
  
• Dottie Frazier was born in July, 1922 in Long Beach, CA, a female who should have been a male according to her dad.
  
• In 1940 Dottie started teaching skin diving classes and became the Worlds first female Scuba Instructor in the United States in 1955.
  
• Dottie taught skin and scuba diving for the YMCA in an old basement swimming pool in downtown Long Beach.
  
• She later became the first woman hard hat diver but she felt too restricted and gave it up 2 years later.
  
• Dottie became owner of her own dive shop called the Penguin. She was the first woman in the world to own and operate a dive shop!
  
• Dottie then began manufacturing her own line of wetsuits as well as making suits for US Divers, Healthways, and Navy UDT teams.
  
• Dottie is a charter member of the Long Beach Neptunes and the Women Divers Hall of Fame.