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 »
Want to take Joel’s advice to heart and learn how to scuba dive? PADI is the place to do it. [PADI]
When I go on my diving vacation at the end of this month, I won’t be bringing this video mask. Why anyone would like to attach dumb headlights to vital diving gear is beyond me.
newVideoPlayer("kirbymorgan_gizmodo.flv", 494, 390,""); At US$5,900, the Kirby Morgan 57 Diving Helmet is way out of the budget of most scuba diving lovers and Jacques Costeau-wannabes. But don’t worry because you don’t need one of these underwater wonders unless you want to get down to the pits of hell or dive into biologically contaminated water—like the bottom of a sewage treating tank, shipwrecks with dangerous cargo, public swimming pools, and my bathtub. This is why you need its fiberglass and carbon fibre shell with temperature and electrical charge insulation, defogging valve, ultra-secure latch system, and a quad-valve exhaust system that apparently makes the helmet extremely dry with no breathing performance penalty. Amazing, but—does it have FM radio receiver? That’s what we really want to know.
A dive computer by any other name, the Sea Instrument is a square and (sort of) attractive piece of kit for rich divers. Launched this month by Danish watch designers Linde Werdelin, it clips onto the Biformeter watch and gives you all the info you need while you’re blowing bubbles a hundred feet below the surface. So, it may be nice-looking, but is there anything there that would persuade me to get rid of my Suunto Mosquito, a snip at US$300?
I wouldn’t—well, I would just once, like to see what it’s like to dive with The Hives singing along while I fin down to a reef —because I like to live out my Darth Vader fantasies, but this MP3 player could just persuade me otherwise. What is remarkable about this iRiver iFP-380T, with its waterproof case and headset, is that you can go down to 200 feet with it clipped onto your mask. The device runs on one 9-volt battery and one AA and it costs US$199. [Frontgate via UberReview]
