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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.

Scuba Diving BCs: Behind The Scenes of ScubaLab's 2017 Gear Review

Go behind the scenes with the ScubaLab test teams. Take a look at these pictures of the in-water gear tests at Blue Grotto for the 2017 BC review.

2017 Scuba Diving BC Scubalab Review

ScubaLab tested out the latest jacket-style and back-inflation scuba diving BCs. Check out the results of our in-water evaluations and objective testing.

ScubaLab Best Buy: Seac F1S Scuba Diving Fins

The Seac F1S scuba diving fins were a ScubaLab Best Buy during the 2017 fin test.

ScubaLab Testers Choice Fins — Scubapro GO

Selected as the favorite by more divers than any other fin in our test, the Scubapro GO is the 2017 ScubaLab Testers Choice for barefoot fins.

ScubaLab Testers Choice Fins — TUSA HyFlex Switch

The TUSA HyFlex Switch voted as the best fin for scuba diving by our team of divers, making it the ScubaLab Testers Choice winner for best fins.

The Story Behind the Making of the Outlaw BC

Aqua Lung created a stripped-down BC for experienced scuba divers who prefer one with only the bare essentials.

Shearwater Perdix Dive Computer ScubaLab Testers Choice

The Shearwater Perdix dive computer won Testers Choice for during ScubaLab's 2016 dive computer test. We go into detail in this video review.