Bomber Eyewear

Tommy “The Bomber” Bonacci is a World Champion Jet Ski Racer, winning the world championship in 1989, 1990, 1995 and more recently making his comeback with back-to-back wins in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Back in the 90's, Tommy worked construction jobs when he wasn’t racing jet skis. He found the safety glasses that were given to him on these job sites were extremely uncomfortable and just not cool-looking. He decided to take a pair of sunglasses that one of his jet ski sponsors gave him, and with torn-off pieces of foam padding from his jet ski, he lined the inside of his glasses with this foam, found them to be extremely comfortable - and the very first prototype for Bomber Eyewear was made. He wore them to the jobsite and immediately started getting compliments on his rad-looking safety glasses. The feedback was all the same: not only did his shades look cool, but they were comfortable too. He immediately started selling them out of his backpack. And one day, while out testing one of his jet skis, they fell off his head and floated to the top of the water. Turns out that the same foam-lining that made the shades super comfy, is the same stuff that also made them float! So in 1997, he patented the idea ... and here we are more than 20 years later.