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Quick Looks: An Inside Look at Must-Have Dive Gear

ScubaLab's quick guide to must-have dive gear.

ScubaLab TV: Blue Grotto

ScubaLab hit the road to dive one of Florida's largest clear-water caverns, The Blue Grotto, and try out some of the latest cold-water scuba gear from Cressi, IST Sports, Pinnacle Aquatics, Sherwood Scuba, and Thermalution.

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.

Cressi Aquaride Blue Pro

The Aquaride Blue Pro is a new Cressi 2015 weight-integrated wrap-around Jacket with adjustable shoulder straps.

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.

Pack List: What ScubaLab Fit into each Dive Bag

Interested in what the full pack list was from ScubaLab's Dive Bag Test? We've got the gear for you right here!

SCUBALAB 2014: BC Review

Today’s BCs are complex pieces of equipment, with a host of features, capabilities and details. Check out ScubaLab's review of 16 new BCs.

ScubaLab Testers' Choice: Apeks WTX BC

Part of Apeks’ line of tec-oriented wing systems, the model we tested was built around a new ultralight travel plate, 18-pound-lift single tank “donut,” one-piece harness and SureLock weight system. For its performance and flexibility, the WTX is our Testers’ Choice.

ScubaLab Best Buy: Cressi Travelight BC

The restyled Travelight offers enough stability, comfort and amenities that it’s easy to forget it’s not a full-featured jacket BC with a rigid backplate. Ready why the Travelight was voted Best Buy this year by ScubaLab.