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.
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We test more diving equipment and collect more data than anyone else in the industry. The annual best scuba regulator test is our team’s favorite test of the year.
Sure, there might be other dive gear deemed more important to basic survival (a reg) or your general well-being (a dive computer) than a BC.
This year’s undisputed favorite among test divers, the Aquaride Elite is well built with virtually no inherent buoyancy.
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15 kickers vie for the top spot in this year's ScubaLab fin tests.
This kicker turned in some of the best overall in-water performance scores, earning the highest scores for acceleration.