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Dottie Frazier

5/18/2020

 
  • 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.

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