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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The Brut is sold as an entry-level reg, and for the price it offers good performance.
This is a basic reg that delivers gas reliably. The stiff purge is annoying, and if you dive in a drysuit and carry an octo, the MC5 doesn’t offer enough LP ports.
The new Titan shows you don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a really great reg. Top breathing performance at a really good price makes it a Best Buy in our book.
These are solid regs that deliver excellent breathing performance both when diving within recreational depths and when pushed to extremes.
This standout reg breathes easy under normal conditions, plus offers a tremendous amount of reserve capacity for extreme diving.
The Delta 4.2 is a solid midrange reg, delivering very good performance and offering some nice design features. The second-stage swivel is a nice add-on, increasing range of motion.
Both lab coat and wetsuit wearers really liked this reg.