15 Struggles Every Scuba Diver Knows Too Well
From wetsuit battles and foggy masks to baggage stress and post dive brain fog, these 15 scuba diving struggles will feel painfully familiar.
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They Said a Scuba Cylinder Couldn’t Explode. I Lost Both Legs When One Did
Hussein Mansour recounts a 2014 scuba cylinder rupture in Alexandria, with a technical guide to cylinder failures, inspections and hydrostatic testing.
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4 Reasons Why Enriched Air Nitrox Should Be Your Next Specialty
Discover four practical reasons to take an Enriched Air Nitrox specialty, from longer no decompression limits to better gas planning and repetitive diving.
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Why Recreational Divers Are Switching to Backplate and Wing Systems in 2026
Why are recreational divers choosing backplate and wing systems in 2026? Explore modular BCDs, Hogarthian principles, streamlining, and serviceability.
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New AI System Reads Divers’ Bubbles to Estimate Breathing Rate
University of Minnesota researchers built an AI system that estimates a scuba diver’s breathing rate from exhaled bubbles, offering a contactless safety monitor for divers.
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Hollis Recalls 7,200 Scuba Regulators Over Inlet Tube Failure Risk
Huish Outdoors has issued a voluntary recall of roughly 7,200 Hollis 200LX Second Stage scuba regulators sold in the United States, along with 370 units sold in Canada, after identifying a defect that can cause the regulator to fail underwater.
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Apeks Recalls XL4, XL4+ and OCEA Regulators Worldwide Over Gas-Flow Defect
A global product safety recall is underway for a range of Apeks second-stage regulators after testing revealed a manufacturing flaw that could restrict a diver’s air supply at depth. HEAD Watersports, the parent distributor of Apeks, confirmed the recall in
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How to Find and Fix a Leaking Drysuit
A practical guide to drysuit maintenance, from leak detection to valve and seal repair Diving exposes the body to conditions it cannot survive unprotected. Water pulls heat away from the body far faster than air does, so the right exposure
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Safety & The “Smart” Diver Era: The Rise of Biometric Decompression
For decades, technical and recreational divers have relied on the same fundamental math to stay safe: theoretical decompression models. We plug our depth and time into algorithms like Buhlmann ZHL-16C, throw on some generic “Gradient Factors” to add a safety
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The Quest for Symbiosis: How the Hydrophilis Could Redefine Lightweight Diving
For decades, scuba innovation has focused on going deeper, staying longer, and carrying more advanced technology underwater. But Swiss cave explorer and inventor Olivier Isler pursued a different dream entirely: creating a diving system so streamlined and natural that it
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