Watches
5 Dive Watches Worn By Professional Saturation Divers
Commercial saturation diving is the final frontier for professional divers. Which watches do these brave people use?
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WatchesScuba Diving in Bonaire with Doxa Watches
We took three serious dive watches beneath the waves in Bonaire, a Dutch island in the Caribbean, to put them through their paces.
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WatchesScuba Diving in Bermuda with the Seiko SKX007
The Seiko SKX007 is one of the most beloved of all modern, affordable dive watches, but how does it actually perform beneath the waves?
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WatchesThe Aquastar Deepstar May Be the Coolest Vintage Dive Watch You’ve Never Heard Of
With its distinctive features and chronograph, the Aquastar Deepstar is a beautiful timepiece from the heyday of SCUBA diving.
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OutdoorsDiving the Izu Islands, or Learning Japanese the Hard Way
Deep seas and scares break language barriers for the only English-speaker in a Japanese diving group.
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TechShooting the Nikonos V, History’s Great Underwater Camera
The Nikonos camera produced many of history’s greatest underwater images.
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ArchiveA Brief History of Underwater Living
Underwater habitats have a 50-year history of scientific discovery, tight living quarters, long decompression times and insane amounts of risk.
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ArchiveKit: Wreck Diving
For centuries, man has found countless ways to send ships to the bottom of the sea. Since the advent of scuba technology, we’ve found ways to explore them.
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ArchivePhoto Essay: Diving and Decompressing in Belize
After a long and fairly uneventful dive on an unnamed reef out in South Water Caye, I clambered aboard Splash Belize’s dive boat, shed tanks and weights and stripped off my wetsuit. The big diesels rumbled to life and Captain Malcolm steered toward a small island in the distance.
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ArchivePerilous Waters: Five Best Places to Dive with Sharks
Despite the fact that that the world’s shark population is perilously shrinking, it is still possible to find places to dive with these magnificent creatures. And that may be just what they need most: seeing them at eye level cruising effortlessly against a strong current, always wary, always watchful, one learns to appreciate them for the miracles of evolution that they are, rather than as bloodthirsty killers.
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TechKit: Diving the Bahamas
While we love diving for its ability to transport us to an alien world, defy gravity and commune with nature, we also love it for the gear. Diving may be the most gear-intensive sport out there, with the possible exception of mountain climbing.
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