Diving Equipment Archive

Oceanic Dive Computers Now and the Future

Oceanic also now known as American Underwater Products (AUP) covers a range of brands including Aeris, Hollis & Oceanic. Every year Oceanic UK hosts a seminar to showcase the new and up coming products that will be available to the UK Market. The seminar covers all products lines and categories from masks to rebreathers. This [...]
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Time To Dust Off Your Kit

So…its a new year, your kit has been snuggled up warm and dry somewhere safe for the winter and the season is just around the corner. NOW is the time to dig it out from storage, cover the front room floor with kit and give it a good going over. I’ve covered pre-season checks before in [...]
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Oceanic Mandatory Replacement – QLR3 Weight Pockets

Oceanic has announced a mandatory replacement of all affected BCDs that use the QLR3 weight pocket system. The affected BCDs include the Excursion 2, Probe HLC and Ocean Pro 1000D (not sold in the UK). Following isolated reports of the weight pockets unexpectedly releasing Oceanic engineers have identified that a limited number of QLR3 weight pockets [...]
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A New Legend is Born

After much hype and secrecy at Aqua Lung the new Legend range of regulators are now available. The Legend comes in three different flavours, the standard Legend, the Legend LX and the Legend LUX – all of which are of the ‘Supreme’ specification. Aqua Lung Supreme regulators are specially adjusted for extreme cold and are [...]
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New Black Edition Suunto Computers

Suunto have started shipping the first of their black edition D6i and Cobra3 models. The Suunto D6i Black features all the same great features of the standard model including 3D tilt compensating digital compass, full decompression dive information, gas switching, improved memory, dot matrix display and the option to upgrade the computer with a wireless transmitter [...]
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Cold Water Diving

As winter starts to set in and the temperature drops there is more that we need to bear in mind before each dive. I certainly don’t want to put anyone off but diving in cold water creates a new set of challenges that need to be prepared for before actually going diving. Every piece of equipment [...]
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Suunto Dive Manager 4 for Mac

Suunto have now released a Mac version of their popular dive computer interface software which provides a great link between not only your Mac and dive computer but also their online sport / outdoor activity community at www.movescount.com. The DM4 software provides a good clean display show previous dive profiles, temperatures, warnings and tissue levels during [...]
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Fitting Hose Protectors

One of the most common questions divers buying their first set of diving equipment ask is “how do I fit hose protectors?”. If they have already had a try then usually there are a few unpublishable words thrown into that question! Brute force and sore hands are usually the first method but here are a [...]
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New Mask Preparation

We are often asked about how to prepare a new mask to help prevent it from fogging up during your dive. There are a number of techniques from the traditional tried and tested (the method we’ll run through here) to the insane (flaming the mask lenses). It is also only half of the job, proper [...]
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Custom Divers SEE-ME Luminous SMBs

We have just got in a new range of Custom Divers SMBs in stock which have a special pocket built in which if you pop your torch into makes the SMB glow for greater visibility – an excellent feature for night dives. We have 2 versions available: Custom Divers See Me 9kg Luminous SMB Custom Divers See Me [...]
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