A BLACKBURN sports equipment firm best known for producing the eye mask used on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here has scooped a top award.
Aqua Sphere, based on Neptune Way, Blackburn, beat off stiff competition to win the Best Designed Sports Kit Category at the star-studded Sport Industry Awards 2006.
The award recognised the firm's new Eagle goggles, which Aqua Sphere says is the first of its kind to feature lenses that can be simply taken out and replaced with different ones, depending on diving conditions.
Recently the firm hit the headlines after supplying the ITV television show with protective goggles used to cover the eyes of celebrities as they undertook tasks including having exotic insects poured over them.
Aqua Sphere, which has been praised in industry magazines for their work, also makes other swimming equipment including fins, masks, snorkels, bags and accessories.
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