Diving
-
While simply gearing up and jumping into the water may be one way for kids to learn to scuba dive, Snorkel Dive Innovations believes there's a safer method. Its patent-pending approach incorporates a tethered system with adjustable depth limits of from 0 to 6 meters (20 feet).
-
The Ressence Type 5 recreational diving watch is filled with oil to not only make it more pressure resistant, but also readable underwater from any angle.
-
Breitling appears to be targeting a pretty niche market with its Superocean Chronograph M2000. It might look like just another upmarket diving watch, but this particular timepiece is rated water-resistant to depths of 2,000 m (6,600 ft).
-
Deep sea diving is a complex operation that's incredibly wasteful when it comes to the helium/oxygen gas mixture that the divers breathe. That's why US Navy scientists at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City have developed a new prototype deep-diving system that goes easy on the helium.
-
The all-new Seabear H3 is a smartwatch for outdoor lovers of land and sea. Billed as the first dive watch with color OLED display, the watch also includes features for hikers and other sporty landlubbers.
-
Development is well underway on the Scubus S diving mask- which integrates a flashlight, a video camera, a heads-up display and a diver-to-diver communication system into its waterproof housing. It's designed to make diving safer, as well as more fun.
-
Canadian based company Nuycto Research has produced an Exosuit that will allow divers to safely operate at depths of up to 1,000 ft with none of the nasty pressure-induced side effects that so often ruin a deep sea diver's day.
-
Divers already have the option of replacing their two regular swim fins with one dolphin fluke-like rubber monofin, although aerospace engineer Ron Smith claims that his invention is much more effective. Known as the DOL-Fin, it incorporates a wide rigid hydrofoil-type fin.
-
Victorinox is launching a limited Titanium edition of its Dive Master 500 divers watch to celebrate 25 years of watchmaking. The new watch brings a mechanical chronograph movement to the collection, and features a generous helping of luminous markers in two different colors.
-
Outdoor torch manufacturer Light & Motion is taking its multifunctional lights to the next level. The all-new GoBe is a lightweight handheld that's compatible with half a dozen different lighting elements. Purchase all six screw-on heads and you create six different lights off of one platform.
-
Unless you're a submarine pilot, it isn't every day you get to pilot a submarine, and so I'm in Malta to test drive U-Boat Worx' C-Explorer 2. It's a millionaires' plaything designed for exploring under the sea to depths of 1,000 m. My mission: to explore a wreck at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
-
The iGills SE-35 turns an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S into a fully featured dive computer.
Load More