Scuba Diving Partner Articles
The Legend LUX regulator crafts the future with innovative technology and sleek cosmetic appeal. The new Legend LUX is smaller and lighter than its predecessors and features the all new Master Breathing System (MBS) technology. When you dive with a Legend, you’re diving with the best. So why not get one that looks the best too? There is no mistaking the rich look of Legend Lux’s tougher than-nails pink gold PVD finish.
With 840 miles of spectacular Pacific coastline, California offers abundant places for divers to get wet, from easily accessible shore-diving spots to offshore pinnacles and islands. And as underwater photographers will tell you, many of these sites offer gorgeous kelp forests brimming with marine life. We can’t possibly write about them all, but here are five amazing places in California to dive in kelp.
This suit is among the best of the new crop of compressed neoprene drysuits. Bare’s new self-donning X-C-S-2 Tech Dry is made of two-mil hyper-compressed neoprene sandwiched between a tough nylon laminate on the outside and a high-stretch “frictionless” laminate on the inside.
Cressi’s Reaction adjustable fin has a long and relatively flexible blade that’s made from a new-generation technical polypropylene. This lightweight composite makes for a responsive fin throughout each phase of the kicking cycle.
You won’t find a more compact console-style air-integrated dive computer than Subgear’s X-P-H. Measuring just over two inches in diameter and weighing a featherlight five ounces, this single-gas data cruncher is an air-integrated dive computer that reads up to 4,350 psi in 10 psi increments.
Designed for cold-water divers, Thermalution’s Power-Heated Undersuit can be worn beneath any wetsuit. A thin, flexible heating element built into the nylon/lycra Undersuit lays against your back and radiates heat while you’re cruising the cold depths.
Fit is always top priority when selecting a dive mask. The new M-211 Freedom One from TUSA offers the company’s latest Freedom Fit and Freedom Dry technologies intended to maximize comfort and minimize leakage.
U-T-C’s U-D-I, is an underwater communications tool, safety device and dive computer, all rolled into one wrist-mount unit that seamlessly connects you to the boat unit.