Diving Gear & Equipment Reviews & Recalls

Recalls of Dive Gear and Equipment

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Aqualung Recalls the Exotec BCD, 11/22     Available to the Public 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 Zeagle Recalls Five Types of BCs, 11/18 Suunto Finally Settles Its Lawsuit, the results may benefit owners of its dive computers, 10/18 Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue, 9/18 Oceanic/Hollis Regulator Recall, 7/18

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 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 Available to the Public 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 Suunto Finally Settles Its Lawsuit, the results may benefit owners of its dive computers, 10/18 Phone For Your Deco Too?, 6/18 Diving Computer Algorithms Are Important, and you should be on the same page as your buddy, 6/18 Oxygen Analyzers – What’s New?, 6/18 Things Are Not Always As They Seem, especially to an ill-informed passing boater, 5/18 Suunto/Aqualung Computer Lawsuit Continues, 4/18 A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017, 1/18

Regulators & Rebreathers

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Why Does Your Regulator Let You Down After Servicing?, 3/23 An Important Advance for Closed-Circuit Divers, 8/22 Why Does Your Regulator Free-flow? , understanding how your regulator works, 10/21 Available to the Public 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 Scubapro Steps Up, 10/18 Is Your Mouthpiece Causing You Pain?, 9/18 Oceanic/Hollis Regulator Recall, 7/18 Rebreathers: What Every Scuba Diver Needs to Know, and know about the diver next to you using one, 2/18 Regulator Servicing: Do It Every Two Years, 1/18

Underwater Photography

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all 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     Available to the Public 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 Not All Magnifying Glasses Will Spot Critters, 8/18 Your Battery Charger: a Real Risk of Liveaboard Fire, 5/18 An Incredible Voyage, 5/18 Are Underwater Photography Courses Good Value? We Want To Hear From You, 5/18 Diving in Lembeh Can Be Infectious!, 4/18 Does Your Light Cause Critters Harm?, are high-powered video lights a concern?, 4/18 Underwater Bullies, 3/18 A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017, 1/18

BCD's (Buoyancy Compensators)

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all 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     Available to the Public 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 Zeagle Recalls Five Types of BCs, 11/18 Scubapro Steps Up, 10/18 Problems with Sherwood Avid BCs Still Continue, 9/18 No Side-Mount Tanks on Aggressors?, 6/18

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

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all 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 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 Available to the Public 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 Some Divers Really Need to Drop a Few Pounds, 10/18 Buoyancy Cell Failure Causes Diver Fatality, 7/18 Blubber For SEALs and Penguin Feathers, 7/18 Still Trouble with Full-Face Snorkeling Masks? A Retired Mares Dealer Makes His Reservations Clear, 5/18 Mares Tests Full-Face Snorkeling Masks in the Light of Snorkeling Deaths, 4/18 Get Your Weights Off First!, 3/18

Air and Tanks

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Instructor Killed by Blasted Tank Valve, 11/22     Available to the Public Metal Matters — Are Your Tanks Aluminum or Steel?, 4/20 Don’t Worry about Coronavirus in Your Scuba Tank, 4/20 Why Even Air-Breathing Divers Should Analyze Their Tanks, 10/18 Just How Much Is a Bar, Anyway?, 8/18 Oxygen Analyzers – What’s New?, 6/18

Dive Merchandising

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Is This the End of the BCD?, technology replacing simple physics?, 3/22 The Risk of Selling Second-hand Dive Gear, 7/21   Available to the Public 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 Diving Gear to Stand Well Clear Of!, 4/18 Diviac Goes to PADI, 2/18 The Diving Industry Must Get Rid of Disposable Plastic, 2/18 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Warranties, where did my Aeris warranty go?, 2/18 A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017, 1/18 Plastic is Suffocating the Ocean, and the dive industry must share the blame, 1/18

Miscellaneous

For Undercurrent Online Members, articles with are available to all Don't Hide Your Keys in the Bushes, 1/23 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     Available to the Public 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 Read This Before Plugging In Your Dive Camera, 11/18 Not All Magnifying Glasses Will Spot Critters, 8/18 No Safety Sausage? Toss Water!, 5/18 Sending Your Sausage Safely, letting them know where you are before you surface, 4/18 A Safety Sausage Can Save Your Life, 4/18 Solutions for Rescue When Lost at Sea, they are not as simple as you might presume, 4/18 A Taste of New Products at DEMA 2017, 1/18

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