Before we had ALVIN — or proper submarines for that matter — the best way to get to the seafloor was by using a diving bell. Originally made from recycled church bells, these diving apparatuses protected their passengers from the murky depths in a bubble of air. Our friends at Oobject have assembled nine of the best. More »
Turns out that, aside from the drill-arm, Big Daddies aren’t that far off from the real thing. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the toughest examples of deep-sea diving suits around — from da Vinci’s cloth prototypes to the bell helmets made famous by countless Scooby-Doo villains. More »
Dave Marcel is an experienced deep-sea diver and shark lover. On routine diving tours, he likes to attract the generally docile nurse shark over, and invites people to give them hugs and kisses. Aww. Only this time he went for the lips. And then the obvious happens. More »
My greatest Scuba diving fear? Shark attack. Shark attack I can’t defend against because the underwater camera I’m shooting with is strapped to my wrist and makes shark eye-gouging damn near impossible. That’s what makes these Liquid Image camera goggles so appealing. More »
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A Nevada family of scuba divers has prototyped an underwater fort – an anchored air pocket in a net – at the secret location at the bottom of a lake in the Sierras. And it’s been there for three years! More »
