H. DESSAULT

Hugues Dessault is a legendary name in the history of spearfishing.
Hugues, whose parents are from Montpellier in France, began fishing at a very young age, in Algeria, where he was born, in the 1950s. He took part in his first Spearfishing World Championship in Brazil in 1963 and finished third in the individual event, winning the team event.
Vice European champion in 1964 and Fourth in 1962 and 1968, he decided at the end of the 1960s to devote himself to his true passion: the creation and production of spearfishing equipment.

In 1973, the H. Dessault brand was registered in France: one of the first spearfishing brands to be born in Europe.
In 1976, Hugues invents and produces the first fin with a detachable blade. Among other notable inventions, the “haricot” release mechanism which is the basis of the operating principle behind all the triggering mechanisms featured on modern spearguns.

Over the years the H. Dessault brand will become famous for the quality of its wetsuits and speargun slings, personally manufactured by Hugues, in his laboratory in Montpellier.
Since 2009 the brand has changed ownership several times, with alternating fortunes and product lines not always at the level of the glorious name of H. Dessault.
Finally, in 2020, the brand lands in the C4 group. The old H. Dessault product line is, with a good dose of courage, completely discarded. From the very beginning the idea behind this project has been to start from scratch, creating a new line, thanks to the thirty-year experience and technical and commercial knowledge of the entire C4 Team.

The result of this long work is a series of new products, all featuring an exclusive design and developed within the company, that finally worthily represent the greatness of this historic brand which will turn 50 years old in 2023.