DeeperBlue.com, known until now as a freediving and scuba digital media outlet, has branched out with a range of eco-friendly topside clothing aimed at both
Explore the realm of Scuba Gear Accessories, where we showcase the essential add-ons that complement your diving equipment. From dive lights and dive knives to underwater cameras and gear bags, we provide detailed reviews, recommendations, and insights to help you choose the right accessories to enhance your underwater adventures.
Discover the tools that will elevate your diving experience and make your underwater explorations even more enjoyable and convenient.
DeeperBlue.com, known until now as a freediving and scuba digital media outlet, has branched out with a range of eco-friendly topside clothing aimed at both
If you sometimes feel the need to zip around a big wreck or reef in a hurry, diver-propelled vehicles (DPVs) can meet that need –
A new free app out now for divers is Digidive, a customisable dive-log for all qualification levels and currently available for iPAD and iPhone users.
Today’s post focuses on the valves of your dSMB (delayed surface marker buoy). Understanding how these valves work and how to maintain them can enhance
Explore some of the best upgrades and customisations you can make to your dive gear to enhance your underwater experience. From adjusting your regulator hoses
Shoreline is perfect for all your dive adventures, says UK manufacturer Fourth Element of its latest product, a “travel throw-on” or poncho made of OceanPositive
A new acoustic underwater navigation system that enables divers to pinpoint their and others’ positions, record waypoints and communicate with each other and with dive
The UK’s only volunteer missing-persons dive-team has been gifted a £6,000 AquaEye handheld sonar scanner by the device’s Canadian manufacturer VodaSafe. The divers have also
Scuba divers are the people best-placed to monitor exactly how climate change is affecting the world’s oceans, says experienced diver Neil van Niekerk, who dreams
Scuba-diving groups needing to stay in touch or locate each other in an underwater emergency can struggle in lo-vis conditions, but researchers at the University
Scuba divers whose eyesight is less than 20/20 usually have to splash out on a dive-mask with prescription lenses. These can be bifocal, and there
IS IT JUST ME, OR DO YOU TOO HAVE A FEAR OF DROPPING SOMETHING EXPENSIVE and irreplaceable while you’re under water? The thought of seeing
When WW2 ended 70 years ago, an adapted gas-control regulator hit the market and recreational scuba got the boost it needed. And old-school twin-hose diving
BEING SEEN AT THE SURFACE is one of the most important factors in diver safety. Indeed, ascending away from a shotline can be a hazardous
Do you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? You may have been enjoying reading digital DIVER on your device, but Gavin Parsons has been
Pro diver and instructor, polar guide, mountaineer and yacht skipper, author, conservationist, TV personality and public speaker (catch him at Dive 2010 this month) –
Appeared in DIVER June 2010 Why did no-one think of making a tank-mounted DPV before? John ‘Jetboy’ Bantin goes west to try out the Pegasus
THE BLADEFISH BF5000 is the top of the range of a distinctly new style of diver propulsion vehicle. I am often given DPVs to try
John Bantin has been a full-time professional diving writer and underwater photographer since 1990. He makes around 300 dives each year testing diving equipment. Superhawk Is
No, there’s no mistake! Nick Herbert’s twinset (opposite) is meant to be worn upside down. It’s a little wrinkle he has borrowed from Royal Navy
SOME call them tanks, others call them bottles; the BSAC calls them cylinders and the HSE, in line with Euro-speak, now calls them transportable pressure
THE man who discovered that a freely pivoting magnet always swings magnetic north has long been forgotten, but that simple property has been essential to
THERE was a time when you were expected to share a regulator mouthpiece with your buddy if one of you ran out of air. Thankfully