Here's our annual product excellence awards for BCs, brought to you by Rodale's ScubaLab, the only independent testing facility of scuba life-support equipment.

Three millimeters of neoprene makes for warm and happy hands.

We all know the rule: "Look, Don't Touch." But just in case...

Tighten, loosen, pick or pry--when you're on the go, you need a tool for the task at hand. Scuba tools sport Swiss army knife-style bodies into which are folded a bevy of wrenches and drivers designed specifically to keep you from being left ...

Stop storing your dive gear in a heap, and your gear will thank you for it. Dive equipment hangers are designed to allow gloves and exposure suits and BCs to drain and dry efficiently while maintaining their shape, and then they provide a great ...

Check out the Air Jordans of scuba footwear.

OK guys, for the last time — dive knives are tools, not weapons.

It wasn't all that long ago that the only way you could gauge the breathing characteristics of a regulator was to simply breathe on it, and then try to make subjective judgments on its inhalation effort, exhalation resistance, etc. This was ...

How to Read A Breathing Loop