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Best Travel Gear for Scuba Diving Trips

For our 2026 Liveaboards issue, ScubaLab reviewed travel-friendly dive gear. This roundup highlights several categories of travel-ready gear, including bags, BCs, fins and more.

14 Items to Help You Dive Safer

Safety in diving is paramount. Luckily, there's no shortage of products to help. Here, we review a selection of newer items designed to keep you safer.

10 Best New Tec-Style Fins
ScubaLab and its team of dedicated testers put six new tec-style, open-heel fins to the test. Here's how they stacked up against one another—plus, four more we have our eye on.
Best New Dive Computers Reviewed
ScubaLab tests five air-integrated and five non-air-integrated dive computers. See which computers we recommend most.
23 Underwater Cameras, Lights and Accessories for Divers
Diving is full of magical underwater moments.
Best BCDs for Beginner Divers

ScubaLab takes a look at 9 BCs—five beginner-, budget-friendly jacket BCs and four brand-new back-inflation and hybrid models—to see how they compare.

Best Scuba Regulators of 2025 Reviewed

ScubaLab put eight new scuba regulators to the test to see how each performed compared to the others.

13 Best Storage Bags for Scuba Divers

ScubaLab tests more than a dozen new backpacks and mesh boat bags in a variety of categories to find out which are the best of the best.