Diving Gear & Equipment Reviews & Recalls

Recalls of Dive Gear and Equipment

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Available to the Public Aqualung Recalls the Exotec BCD, 11/22 Atomic Regulator Hose Recall, 9/19 Serious BC Issues: A Mares Recall, and a Major Design Flaw, 4/19 Shearwater Recalls Its Computer Transmitters, 1/19

Dive Computers

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Apple Ultra Watch Running the Oceanic Dive Computer App, 8/23 Apple Ultra Watch and App: The Future of Dive Management?, 1/23   Available to the Public The Apple Watch as a Diving Computer, 10/22 We Asked: Do You Download Your Dives?, the digital revolution is big in scuba, 8/22 Backup Computers, Part III, Master the complexities, 3/22 Do You Use a Backup Computer, Part II, only your computers count, 2/22 The Essential Backup Computer: Part 1, oh, are there stories to tell, 1/22 Understand Your Diving Computer, a Galapagos diving incident, 9/21 Is Your Computer Too Conservative? Not On Your Life!, 9/21 Stupid or What?, 9/19 Dump Valves, Customs Scams, Suunto Lawsuit, your letters to the editor, 7/19 The Real-Time Data Every Dive Computer Should Have, 5/19 Old Dive Computers, Odd Treatment: Letters to the Editor, 4/19 Is Your Old Computer Still Safe?, how to determine whether it’s time for an update, 3/19 Shearwater Recalls Its Computer Transmitters, 1/19 What’s What at the Latest DEMA Show, and do you really need to buy anything they’re selling?, 1/19

Regulators & Rebreathers

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Air Supply Problem, 11/24 Closed Circuit Rebreathers are for Solo Divers, 9/24 Scorkl: Why Divers See Its Potential Danger , 1/24 Why Does Your Regulator Let You Down After Servicing?, 3/23     Available to the Public An Important Advance for Closed-Circuit Divers, 8/22 Why Does Your Regulator Free-flow?, understanding how your regulator works, 10/21 Avoiding Any Infections from Scuba Equipment, are you confident your regulator remains pathogen-free?, 4/20 An Investment for the Gullible, 2/20 A Taste of the DEMA Show November 2019, not much in the way of new gear, 1/20 Failing to Turn Your Tank On All the Way Is “Simply Stupid”, 11/19 A DIN or a Yoke Regulator? It’s Time To Know The Difference, 11/19 Atomic Regulator Hose Recall, 9/19 A Catastrophic Regulator Failure, don’t hold your breath if you have one (I’m serious), 4/19 Your Next Dive Safety Device Might Be . . . an Underwater Tent?, 3/19 What’s What at the Latest DEMA Show, and do you really need to buy anything they’re selling?, 1/19

Underwater Photography

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Investing in Digital Camera and Expensive Strobes?, 11/24 LiPo Bags Halt Battery Fires , 10/24 Now, Cancun Has the Customs Banditos, 8/24 Airlines Take Lithium-Ion Batteries Seriously, 7/24 Mandarinfish at Lighthouse Reef, 4/24 The Ocean Art 2023 Competition, 2/24 Available to the Public Want to Create Great Videos with Your Action Camera?, 11/22 Rude Divers Can Ruin Trips (Part II), it's all about competitiveness, 10/22 Is an Alex Mustard Workshop Right for You?, 3/22 Inept Buoyancy Control, 3/22 Want to Enroll in an Underwater Photography Course?, 3/22 Rubbish Photography, 2/22 By-Product of a Pandemic, 2/22 Award Winning but Sad, 2/22 The GoPro Selfie-Stick as Unwanted Shark Bait, 11/21 Anything It Takes to Get My Shot, 11/21 American Underwater Photography Team Cleans Up Again, 2/20 Climate Change is Killing Clownfish, 1/20 Lithium-ion Battery Safety: Industry Experts Give Their Points of View, 1/20 A Taste of the DEMA Show November 2019, not much in the way of new gear, 1/20 The Picture of His Life, Yonatan Nir and what lay behind his film of Amos Nachoum, 11/19 Those Underwater Photo Courses, some that really deliver, 11/19 Bringing Underwater Camera Gear to Dive in Mexico?, it just may cost you, 10/19 Apple’s iPhone Plans to Lure Underwater Photographers, 6/19 How You Can Get Great Underwater Pictures, start raw, stalk your subject, and more tips, 6/19 Top Tips from Other Dive Photo Pros, 6/19 Strobes Don’t Damage the Marine Life, 3/19 Confused about Lithium Batteries?, 1/19

BCD's (Buoyancy Compensators)

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Diving the Avelo System , Is the advantage enough?, 3/24 Sidemounting Tanks for Older Divers?, a more comfortable way to wear your tank, 10/23   Available to the Public Unsafe at Any Depth?, 11/22 Aqualung Recalls the Exotec BCD, 11/22 Continuing Sherwood BC Troubles, 7/22 Is This the End of the BCD?, technology replacing simple physics?, 3/22 Dump Valves, Customs Scams, Suunto Lawsuit, your letters to the editor, 7/19 There’s an Easier Way to Dump Air from Your BC, 5/19 Serious BC Issues: A Mares Recall, and a Major Design Flaw, 4/19 Sidemount Diving: Take that Weight off Your Back, 4/19

Masks, Fins, Wetsuits, Weight Belts, Dive Lights, Etc.

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Death and the Full-Face Snorkel Masks, 11/24 Hawaii Snorkelers Drown Using Full-Face Masks, 10/24 Neoprene Is Nasty, we don't have to use it, 9/24 No Gloves When Diving? A Senseless Rule, but maybe controversial, 9/24 Recycle Your Old Wetsuits, 3/24 Coloring My World, 2/24 When a Dive Guide is Wrong Make Sure Your Weight Belt is Not Impeded, 8/23 Full-face Snorkeling Mask Implicated Again, 5/23 Whatever Happened to Dive Knives? Our Recommendations, 4/23 Available to the Public A Heated Vest, an Essential Cold Water Item, 10/22 What Happens to Your Unwanted Neoprene Products?, 9/22 That Snorkel Can Save Your Life, 2/22 Letters to the Editor: Too Much Weight to Dive?, 4/20 Those Full-face Snorkeling Masks – More to the Story, 3/20 That Weight Belt Can Kill You, 2/20 Head/Mares Discovers the Reason for Full Face Mask Deaths, 1/20 Advances in Integrated-Weight Systems, 10/19 Full-Face Flop, 10/19 Dump Valves, Customs Scams, Suunto Lawsuit, your letters to the editor, 7/19 Cozumel, Raja Ampat, Cuba, Grand Turk . . ., plus advice on wetsuits and resort options for older divers, 5/19 Lessons from My Wife’s Snorkeling Death, and why I suspect her mask as the culprit, 4/19 Maybe This Is the Reason Why His Wife Drowned, 4/19 What Wetsuit Should You Get?, the right choices for keeping warm in the water, 4/19 What Fins Do You Fancy?, our reader feedback is as varied as there are fin types, 3/19 “Traditional” Fins Are Making a Comeback, 2/19

Air and Tanks

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Belize Diving Death; Always Test Your Air, 7/24 Diving the Avelo System , Is the advantage enough?, 3/24 Scorkl: Why Divers See Its Potential Danger , 1/24 Sidemounting Tanks for Older Divers?, a more comfortable way to wear your tank, 10/23     Available to the Public Instructor Killed by Blasted Tank Valve, 11/22 Metal Matters — Are Your Tanks Aluminum or Steel?, 4/20 Don’t Worry about Coronavirus in Your Scuba Tank, 4/20

Dive Merchandising

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Available to the Public Is This the End of the BCD?, technology replacing simple physics?, 3/22 The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear, 7/21 An Investment for the Gullible, 2/20 A Taste of the DEMA Show November 2019, not much in the way of new gear, 1/20 What’s What at the Latest DEMA Show, and do you really need to buy anything they’re selling?, 1/19

Miscellaneous

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all LiPo Bags Halt Battery Fires , 10/24 Presumption is the Mother of Disasters, Part II, some mistakes are worse than others, 10/24 Selling Used Gear/Underwater Photo Classes - New Undercurrent Blogs, 8/24 Save the Travel Hassle and Rent Your Dive Gear? , a good idea, firmly rejected by most readers, 8/24 Airlines Take Lithium-Ion Batteries Seriously, 7/24 Customs Banditos, 7/24 Underwater GPS Will Tell You Where Your Boat Is, 7/24 Should I Insure Old Scuba Gear? , 3/24 Pointer Sticks - Something You Should Do Without?, 2/24 Technology Used to Find Lost Guam Divers, 1/24 The 2023 New Orleans DEMA Show, an industry in recovery mode, 1/24 DAN Accident Insurance, 1/24 Don't Hide Your Keys in the Bushes, 1/23     Available to the Public Carbon Monoxide is a Killer, 11/22 When You're Adrift in the Sea, a personal locator beacon will save your bacon, 11/22 Equipment Checks to Prepare for Diving, 11/22 Electronically Tagging Your Dive Bag so You’ll Know Where it Is, 10/22 Underwater Texting?, 10/22 An Important Advance for Closed-Circuit Divers, 8/22 Have You Ever Surfaced and Been Lost?, sensible divers take steps to avoid it, 5/20 Lithium-ion Battery Safety: Industry Experts Give Their Points of View, 1/20 A Taste of the DEMA Show November 2019, not much in the way of new gear, 1/20 Do These So-Called Shark Repellants Keep Sharks at Bay?, 3/19 Can a Fish Tell If a Scuba Diver Is Armed?, 3/19 Your Next Dive Safety Device Might Be . . . an Underwater Tent?, 3/19

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