Our Annual Gear Guide covers everything a diver could want, including all the essential pieces of equipment to a variety of accessories that add convenience, fun or both to your dive adventures.
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A favorite of test divers with great all-around performance, the Sherwood ST1000 dive light is a ScubaLab Testers Choice.
Though I’d never seen tankless dive gear in action, the benefit of this system—so small it fitted in a backpack—was obvious. It was light and portable. Not only would it give people access to hard-to-reach bodies of water but it would also serve as “a gateway drug to scuba diving” given you don’t need a scuba certification to try it.
In this first-ever head-to-head full-face mask test, divers scored masks in 12 performance categories. Separate objective testing was conducted at Dive Lab in Panama City Beach, Florida.
These are the dive knives, flashlights, regulators, video lights, BCDs, wetsuits and masks, according to our independent testers.
ScubaLab test divers tried 21 new dive lights for this 2022 scuba diving light review.
Scoring excellent and very good across the board, and a favorite among test divers, the Light & Motion Sola Photo 1200 is a ScubaLab Testers Choice for underwater video and imaging lights.
Offering solid all-around performance with a good balance between ergonomics, power and price, the SeaLife Sea Dragon Mini 1300s is a ScubaLab Best Buy for full-size dive lights.
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