ScubaGadget - The Deep Background on Scuba

If you are a super dive geek you will already have noticed the BigBlue AFO lights look just like the underwater TV camera mounted on the bottom of Mike Nelson’s boat in some of the Sea Hunt episodes. The shape of this light is so eye catching that, even though all but a few [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 28, 2010 Release #10-208 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Name of Product: Buoyancy Compensators used for Scuba Diving Units: [...]

CPSC Date: 4/14/2010
Name of Product: Mares Nemo Air Dive Computers
Units: About 600 in the United States, 140 in Canada and 15 in Puerto Rico
Distributor: Mares USA, of Boca Raton, Fla.
Hazard: An O-ring in the high pressure air connector can fail and leak air, causing a continuous but slow loss of breathing gas, which could require [...]

Some new dive products are just cool, some are just very practical, but for drysuit divers, the Integrated Silicone Seal System (I.S.S.S) | by WaterProof and Si Tech is a true revolution. For those who have silicon seals, it will change your experience of diving dry. We have shown the seals to dozens of other divers [...]

We just added a the paragraph below to our article, “The OPV Recall: Illustrates why you should check all you gear today. (click for full article)” The article talks about the Toyota like response of Dive Rite to the problem of corroding springs in the over pressure valves of their wings.
(INSERTED PARAGRAPH) When we [...]

DUI (Diving Unlimited International, Inc.) is offering to install their flexible wrist and neck ZipSeals free ($300 value) on any new DUI drysuit purchased from now through July 31, 2010 (from North American Dealers). The ZipSeals allow divers to change out any damaged seals in just minutes and save their dive. The promotion includes all [...]

We just got word (3/2/2010) that Whites Manufacturing has been purchased by Aqualung. Whites, as they say, “will become a member of the Aqua Lung Group of Companies effective March 1, 2010." Whites new siblings will include other well know brands such as Suunto and Apex.
The word from the staff at Whites is that [...]

You giant stride from the gate of the dive boat into the mild, but cold swells of the Pacific Northwest’s emerald sea. But unlike other times you don’t bob quickly back to the surface with your OK sign beaming. “What’s up?! I am sinking!” goes through your mind. You have an important first choice [...]

Divers who get in the water with more frequency than that of a “vacation diver” will most likely invest in their own gear. So you scrimp and save and visit your trusted LDS (local dive shop) and buy what your local experts recommend and … “It feels great, how did I ever dive with that crappy [...]

Brackets and mounts for pony bottles or (redundant air systems) range from simple hook-on bags to complex and often expensive bracket systems. Some are simply nylon or canvas bags that hang on to your main tank and flop around. On the other end of the spectrum are the ones the require you to mount brackets [...]