Our Annual Gear Guide covers everything a diver could want, including all the essential pieces of equipment to a variety of accessories that add convenience, fun or both to your dive adventures.
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Now powered by a single removable 26800 battery with an integrated USBC charge port
the new Hydra 2500 is significantly smaller than the original.
This updated version of Kraken’s Bluetooth enabled, vacuum sealed housing includes upgraded
marine resistant electronics and a larger housing body and port to ensure compatibility with
larger phones.
A favorite among test divers with above-average across the board the HOG DL-20 dive light is a ScubaLab Best Buy for dive lights.
A favorite of test divers with great all-around performance, the Sherwood ST1000 dive light is a ScubaLab Testers Choice.
Though I’d never seen tankless dive gear in action, the benefit of this system—so small it fitted in a backpack—was obvious. It was light and portable. Not only would it give people access to hard-to-reach bodies of water but it would also serve as “a gateway drug to scuba diving” given you don’t need a scuba certification to try it.
In this first-ever head-to-head full-face mask test, divers scored masks in 12 performance categories. Separate objective testing was conducted at Dive Lab in Panama City Beach, Florida.
These are the dive knives, flashlights, regulators, video lights, BCDs, wetsuits and masks, according to our independent testers.
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