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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.

Dive Travel Gear Reviewed by ScubaLab

Here's our list of the best scuba diving gear for easy travel, from compact fins and BCs to folding snorkels and lightweight dive masks.

ScubaLab 2014: Best Diving Gear of the Year

Over the past 12 months, ScubaLab has tested scores of new products, from regs and computers to wetsuits and dive lights. Here is the gear we rated the best.

2014 ScubaLab Best Buy: Cressi Leonardo Dive Computer

You won’t find any color LED display here, or air integration, or four-gas switching. So what do you get with the Leonardo?

2014 ScubaLab Best Buy: Mares Smart Dive Computer

It doesn’t have the longest list of goodies — there’s no air integration or compass — but what it does, it does very well.

The Best Oceanic Dive Computer

Test divers found a lot to like about the OCI — from its data display and presentation to its backlight — and several considered it perhaps the most stylish of the wristwatches.