The Coolest Diving Products You Need to Know About for 2023

These are the coolest diving products that you need to know about for the coming year. These are the Folding Rescue Shears from Life League Gear. This is an awesome tool to have on you while you're scuba diving. Check this out. It's got this cool little pocket here, a little sheath that you can go on your weight belt or go on your BC. The shears come out of there and then they unfold like this. Look, it's like a butterfly. They flip out. You've got very nice stainless steel rescue shears on here. This can cut through fishing line. This can probably cut through thin wire. This can cut through straps, all kinds of things that you might get entangled in nets even. This rescue shear will get you out of those situations. It also has a glass breaker on here, bottle opener, strap cutter. It's got a whole bunch of little different tools in here. It's really cool. And this is a lot safer to carry on you than like an old school dive knife like this. A lot of people think they need a big dive knife like this, like they're going to fight off a shark or something. Totally crazy. You do not need this. This is much safer. Like if you were caught in some fishing line or something and you were trying to use this to get yourself out, there's a good chance that you would stab yourself. So this is kind of risky. Keep a set of these folding shears on your BC or on your weight belt, and this will get you out of a sticky situation. And they're really, really cool and compact. They're made out of stainless steel. I would say when you use these, definitely make sure that you rinse them off really good and maybe give them a little bit of WD-40 too, but check this out. You hit the button, the handle folds up. You hit the button, the handle folds up. Look at this. They're really compact. You can put a carabiner here and clip it right onto your BC or you can put it in its little sheath right here on the sheath. Keep it on your weight belt. Keep it on your BC. Amazing tool. Folding rescue shears. These are the Lobster League diving gloves from Life League Gear. These are really, really nice diving gloves. They have a couple of really cool features that I like. First off, these gloves are made out of a cut-resistant Kevlar. All the soft, flexible part of the glove is made out of this Kevlar material, which is really, really strong. On the outside, it has this PVC shell, so that really protects against the spines of lobsters, will protect you against coral, will protect you against the spines of lionfish and dangerous marine life like that. Also, when you're filleting, it'll protect your hands. When you're grabbing your fish, you're trying to get the spear out, you're trying to brain the fish with a knife, anything like that, these are going to protect your hands. On the bottom, they're coated with like, I can't tell, it must be like a rubber material. So the bottom is really, really grippy and strong and you have the shell on the top and the whole thing's made out of the cut-resistant Kevlar. Another cool feature about these gloves is right here in this pocket here, right where the real sensitive part of your hand is, there's extra stitching in there. There's an extra piece of leather in there that will protect the sensitive part of your hand and also this is perfect for a pole spear. So a pole spear, you hold right here, so that'll keep the glove from getting a hole in it because when you release that pole spear, that pole rubs on the inside of that glove, that's going to protect you from that. So check out these, these are the nicest diving gloves I've ever seen. I'm going to use these for treasure hunting because a lot of times I'm digging around in the sand and who knows what you're going to hit down there, sharp objects, stingrays, anything like that. So these are pretty sweet, Lobster League diving gloves from Life League Gear. This is the Brightweights diving weight belt system. This is my favorite weight belt when I go out when I'm free diving or when I'm using my Brownies third long or my blue system and I need a weight belt, this is my go-to. First off, it looks really, really cool. The weights come in these little individual one-pound slugs and when you put them all on the weight belt, they look like they're like a whole bunch of shotgun shells wrapped around your waist, they look really cool. And also what's really nice though is each one of these is one pound, so it's really customizable. You can give yourself exactly the right amount of weight, nine pounds, 10 pounds, 11 pounds, whatever you need, you can put it and what's really nice is you can adjust where the weight sits on you very precisely. So you can put a third of the weight here, a third of the weight here and a third of the weight on the small of your back, you can balance it out perfectly however you like it. That's what's nice about this weight belt, very, very customizable. It's called Brightweights because the belt and the weight slugs come in a whole bunch of different colors and they look really, really cool. So you can match it with your fins, you can match it with your wetsuit, however you want to trick it out, you can do that. And another thing that's really cool is this weight belt, this is adjustable while you're in the water. So let's say you get ready to go on a dive, you get in the water and you find out you don't have enough weight on, you can just have someone in the boat pass you one or two more weights and while you're in the water, you're actually able to fit the weight right into the belt without even having to take the belt off. So while you're in the water, you can make your adjustment, you don't have to get out and get back into the boat. So it's really customizable, it looks really cool and it's very functional and I think this is probably the best weight belt system ever invented. So go check out Brightweights. These are the folding fins. So this is a full-size scuba diving fin that actually folds up like a like a little fan or something. Look at this, look how small this gets. It can pack away really nicely and all you do is you just open it up. When it opens up, it snaps so it stays open like that. It doesn't fold back up until you press this release latch, then it folds back up. It's got a little rubber band you can put over and that'll keep it nice and small. Now when it's unfolded like this, it's got this plasticky foot pocket. So you do need to use this with a dive bootie. You cannot put your foot barefoot right into here, so you do need to use it with a dive bootie. What's cool, the foot pocket has four points of adjustment. So everywhere the foot pocket attaches to the base of the fin, it's got a little clip that you can pull out, adjust it. So what's really nice is this can fit any diver with any type of dive boot. You can make it fit. It's very customizable. The back of it as well is adjustable as well and it's got a bungee cord back on it. So it fits very snugly around any size dive boot and the kit actually comes with several different size back straps. So this would fit anyone. It's very rigid and all of these parts are replaceable and they actually send you a few spare parts when you get the fins. So if anything were to fail on here, you could replace it. So I think these fins are going to last a really really long time. They're probably the coolest fins I've ever seen. I'm really excited. I just got these. The company just sent this to me. I first saw these at DEMA, the dive show in Orlando. I was really really impressed with them. They sent me a pair to try, so I haven't used them in the water yet. But I can tell you that just by holding it, all the materials on here are really heavy duty and high quality. So I think the folding fins are going to be the future of diving fins. You guys got to check them out. Folding fins. This is the Go Mask from XS Photo. This is the Iron Man edition. So it actually has this like orange tint on it here. So it's really good for bright tropical waters. I've been using this mask for a couple years now. It's really really nice. It is a frameless mask. So it's got a really nice silicone skirt on it. It's got a one piece window on it here. So it's a really really wide field of view, which is what I like. Gives you really good peripheral vision from top all the way to bottom. So if you're scuba diving, you can look down and you can actually look down and see your BC, see the components on it. So it's really really nice, awesome peripheral vision. And the cool thing about this is it has the GoPro mount on the top, which is what I like because I film a lot of treasure hunting videos. So if you're treasure hunting, if you're spearfishing, if you're lobstering and you want to catch it all with GoPro, this is a great way to do that. Dive mask with a built-on GoPro mount. This is one of my favorite masks. It looks really cool, especially with the tint on it. And a lot of people ask me about this mask. So this is the Go Mask from XS Photo. This is a flexible silicone roll-up snorkel. This is really really nice for scuba diving. And let me tell you what, when people go scuba diving, it is recommended to have a snorkel on them in case you run out of air, your surface, you're far from the boat, you need to swim a long ways on the surface, you'll want a snorkel. However, when you're down on the bottom scuba diving, it's not fun to have a snorkel dangling around on your head. It really gets in the way, especially if there's a current, this thing's bouncing around. I don't like to have a snorkel on my mask while I'm diving. So what I do is I carry a roll-up snorkel. So this roll-up snorkel, actually you can roll it up really really small and you can stuff it in the pocket of your BC or even your shorts. Look at that, look how small that snorkel gets. So you can tuck this thing away and you only need to pull it out if you have an emergency. And what else is really cool, it comes with this holder right here. So you can roll it up and you can put it in this holder and the holder you can clip onto your BC. That way you always have your snorkel for safety when you're diving. You've got your backup snorkel just in case, but it's not attached to your head and in the way while you're diving. So that's really cool. Several, like I said, several different companies make these. They're pretty cheap. I recommend you get one and keep it in your diving kit. Of course you can use it diving. You can also use it snorkeling. And I actually use this one for free diving a lot because it's very small. It's a very simple snorkel. Check it out, roll-up snorkel. This is a Lobster League Folding Lobster Net and Tickle Stick Combo from Life Lead Gear. So this is a really really high quality lobstering net that actually folds up for storing and for travel. Look at this, you can fold this lobster net up and it gets really really small and compact so you can, when you're swimming along the reef with it and you haven't found a lobster yet, it's really nice to swim with. You can pack it away in the boat, you can tuck it away somewhere in the boat, so that way it's always ready to go. You always have it with you. And let's go ahead and open it up here. All you do to open it up is you just push on this and it's hinged in the middle. It opens right up, stays open really securely. It's got a really really heavy duty net in it and on the back here it's got the tickle stick which attaches to it. So you use this tickle stick to get the lobster out of his hole and then once you can get the lobster near the net, tap the lobster, when he goes in the net you can actually just close the net right up on him and then he's stuck in the net. He can't get out. That's really really nice because other lobster nets on the market, they stay wide open so when the lobster goes in the net you have to try and twist the net and grab it with your hand really quick. Not this one. All you need to do is just close this right up and then that lobster is secure and he's stuck in there. It's got magnets in it so once you close it like this it actually stays closed on its own so the lobster's in there really securely. All the parts on this are replaceable. If something happens to your net you can get a replacement net. You can replace that. The tickle stick attaches on the back here and it's got these little straps which you can strap it on. Make sure it stays securely on there all together and of course you've got your gauge down here. Always got to have a lobster gauge when you're catching lobster just to make sure that you're legal. Make sure that you're catching the right size lobster. So there's your lobster gauge and it's got a really nice paracord handle on it here. This is a really really high quality lobstering net so if you're into lobstering make sure you go check out the Lobster League Folding Lobster Net and Tickle Stick Combo. This is the Atmos Mission 2 Dive Computer Watch. This is a really nice dive computer watch at a really good price. It has a lot of cool features in it so so far one of the things that I really really like about it is it has a compass built into it so that makes it really convenient. I can look down here. I've got my compass when I'm diving right on my wrist with this. I don't need to pull up my gauge console like that and try and level out my compass. It's right here. Of course it logs all your dives, how deep you went, temperature, all that sort of thing. It does have GPS function in too so you you can log when you're in the surface the GPS will log where you dive. You can transfer that information to your phone. Keep all your dive logs on your phone. Also it does have tide schedules in here so when you link it up with your phone your phone will update it so it'll always have current tide schedules so if you're planning a dive you can look on here see when high tide is, when low tide is, which is really really cool. It's waterproof down to 100 meters so it's going to be a very durable watch and on land it has a heart rate monitor so it's awesome for like biking, running, that sort of thing. I've been using this when I go work out or when I go for a run so I can track how far I ran, how fast I'm running, my heart rate so it's really good for health and fitness and of course it's a really awesome dive computer watch at a really good price so go check out the Atmos Mission 2. This is the Lobster League spearfishing knife from Life League Gear. This is the perfect knife for spear fishermen. It's really really small and compact but it's really really sharp and deadly so this knife here is really compact and look when it goes into the holder it snaps in. It's really really secure. It's not going to fall out. It does have a double-sided lock so when you want to get the knife out of the sheath you have grab the handle push down on both sides of the lock and pull the knife out. It's awesome that the knife is easy to deploy yet is so secure because this knife is really really sharp which is what spear fishermen need for when they're dispatching fish. It's got of course one smooth sharp edge on it and it's got one serrated sharp edge so it's good not only good for cutting into fish but it's also good for cutting into line if you ever get tied up in line or if you found fishing line on the reef or something like that you could cut it off with this. Of course the knife is made out of stainless steel but it's a stainless steel that has this really nice extra black coating so the knife is going to last a long time and it looks really cool. So this is the perfect knife for spear fishermen. If you're a spear fisherman go check out the Lobster League spearfishing knife from Life League Gear. This is the spare air emergency backup breathing system. So the spare air system is basically a little tiny scuba tank that you can keep on you. It's really small, stays out of the way but if you need it if you ran out of air from your main tank or if your main regulator failed you could pull this out and breathe off this for a few minutes. It doesn't have much air in it but it will last for a few minutes. It's enough for you to get back to the surface safely or for you to get over to your dive buddy and get a hold of your dive buddy's backup breathing system. Let me pull this out and show you how small this is right here. So this is actually the three cubic foot tank. They make the tank in a couple different sizes. This is the smallest one the three cubic foot. A common scuba tank is 80 cubic feet so you can see how much smaller this is. But this is just enough to get you out of a dangerous situation safely. Now this one here I've had this for a really long time. I could have got a new one to show you but I want to show you this one here. I've been bringing this one on dives with me for years and years and years and it's still good. So it's basically the scuba tank 3000 psi. It's got this little regulator built on the top. You can put your right mouth right on it and start breathing like this. It's ready to go and breathe. It's also got a little purge valve on the top there and you can actually refill this at home. So it's got a little connector you can connect it to your dive tanks and fill it back up, top it back up. That way it's always ready to go. So this is a really cool backup breathing system. It's got this really bright bright high vis pouch. You can mount it on your BC or on your weight belt. And also this is really good when you're using surface supply diving systems like the battery diving system from Blue or the surface supply diving system from Brownies. I always keep one of these with me just in case you know my hose were to get run over by a boat or somehow my breathing system were to fail. I always have a backup breathing system that has just enough air to get me safely back to the surface. So I think every scuba diver should have a spare air on their kit. If you haven't checked them out already make sure you go check out spare air. This is the OTS Spectrum full face diving mask. So currently I have this OTS Spectrum mask connected to my Blue battery diving system which we're going to talk about that in a minute. But first about the mask. It's a full face diving mask which is really nice because that means you don't have to have the regulator stuck in your mouth. The regulator actually hovers just in front of your mouth so you can breathe normally through your mouth. And also you can even breathe through your nose so it's very very comfortable. The real main advantage about a full face diving mask though is the ability to talk. So OTS sells a system called the OTS buddy phone. It's a communication system that goes into the mask. It allows you to talk to the surface, allows you to talk to other divers which is really really cool. Also this mask has a GoPro mount on it so I mount my GoPro right on top of the mask and I can record. And as I'm going out swimming around I can talk and the GoPro even picks up some of the audio so you can kind of hear what I'm saying while I'm out diving which is really really cool. The mask has a huge back strap here so it stays securely on your head. This thing is on there really good. It's not going to come off. Now if you do get a full face diving mask you do need to go and get certified for a full face mask. So there is a course that you can take to train you how to safely use the full face diving mask like this because there's a couple considerations when using this mask. For example if your primary regulator were to fail what would you do? You can't just replace the regulator. You actually have to take the whole mask off your head. You have to put a backup mask on and a backup regulator in your mouth. So you do need a little bit of training when using a full face diving mask but once you do the work and learn how to use this mask safely it's so comfortable. It's so nice to use. You probably won't want to go back to a traditional mask after using one of these. And of course you can use it with many different diving regulators. So the part where the regulator attaches to is formed the same as a any diving mouthpiece. So most diving regulators will fit in here. So if you have a diving regulator that you prefer you can use it with the full face mask. And like I said currently I have this connected to my blue battery diving system. So if you haven't already go check out the OTS Spectrum full face diving mask. These are battery powered diving systems from blue. This is the Nemo and this is the Nomad. The Nemo goes down to 10 feet. The Nomad goes down to 30 feet. Now both these systems run off a lithium ion rechargeable battery. They're really really small and compact. As you can see they pack away into these really small backpacks. So they're really good for travel. They're really lightweight. So again awesome for travel. You can even take them on the airplane. The batteries are sized in such a way that you're allowed to take them on the airplane. So if you're traveling to some place that doesn't have a dive shop nearby and you want to go on a dive, no problem. Bring the Nomad or bring the Nemo and you can get out diving anywhere you go. Both systems last a little over an hour of dive time on each battery. You can bring multiple batteries with you in the bag. You can do a dive, come back, change out your battery, go back out for another dive. So it's really really nice. Like I said it's really lightweight. So if you're getting older and you're tired of lugging big heavy dive tanks around, consider using a Blue Nomad or a Blue Nemo for your next dive. This is the Backpack Cooler from Life League Gear. This thing is a really really nice cooler. So first off it's really high quality heavy duty material on the outside. It's got really nice accessory loops all over it so you can attach all your gear to it. It's got these big pockets on the outside so you can put big drink cups in here or you can put your fishing rods, you can put your dive fins, you can put all sorts of gear here. Strap it onto the side. It's got a bottle opener on the zipper. It's got this extra waterproof pouch in the front here. Look at the straps on this thing. So even the straps on this thing, they have extra padding on your back. So it's got a really nice really nice breathable mesh on your back. Really good straps. Chest strap. Even has a waist strap. So this thing is really really secure. You could put this on you while you go paddle boarding or something like that and this thing is going to stay really secure. Check out the top here. It's even got bungees on the top so you can bungee your wet gear on the top there. Let it dry. Now the zipper here is a really really heavy duty zipper. It's a watertight zipper as well. So if you put your dry gear in here and you're getting splashed on, rained on, dropping the water, whatever, it's not going to get wet because this thing is all waterproof. Heavy duty zipper. So let's open it up. Look at that in there. It's got a really really nice material. Totally waterproof and obviously it's got really really thick sides. So this is going to keep things cool in here for a really really long time. So this is obviously awesome to be used as a cooler. You could also use it to put you know electronics, cameras, stuff like that. You could put your gear in here, transport your gear with this backpack as well. This thing is really really nice. So make sure you go check out the LifeLeak Gear Backpack Cooler. This is the SEAC low volume free diving mask. So when I go free diving, this is the mask that I go to. It is tiny. You can see how small this mask is. It's a low volume mask which is what you want when you're free diving. When you dive down deep and you need to equalize the pressure in your mask, a low volume mask takes barely any air to equalize it which is really nice because when you're free diving you want to keep all the air in your lungs as much as possible. Obviously that will keep you down as long as possible. So you don't want a big scuba diving mask. You want one of these really small masks like this. And also what's really cool about this mask is you know you could use it for scuba diving. I have used this for scuba diving when I forgot to bring my scuba diving mask and I had this in my kit. So it is a nice backup because it's really really small. You can pack it away and also if you're making like a travel kit, a travel kit for snorkeling, diving, or free diving, this is the mask to have because it is so tiny. I get it in black. I always like to use black masks when possible to block the light from coming in. And this one's just really really comfortable. Fits my face good. You can grab the nose really good to equalize right there. Really small, really nice mask. Go check out the Seaak Low Volume Free Diving Mask. This is the Hog Hybrid Pro BC and the Hog D3 Regulator Set. This is my favorite BC because it's extremely comfortable yet it's really really utilitarian because it has all these big pockets on the front of it. So this is a wing style BC, so it does inflate in the back here. But it's called the Hybrid because it also has these little pockets that come around the side and inflate also. Which is really really nice because it gives you the ease of using a wing BC when you're underwater and you're maintaining neutral buoyancy. But when you go to the surface and you're waiting for the dive boat, it is nice to inflate those side pouches there and it kind of keeps you more upright in the water when you're waiting for the boat at the surface. So that's really cool. And then it's got these huge huge pockets on the front. So it's got one really big storage pocket in the front here. You can store things in, flashlights in. And it's got another really big storage pocket here for your SMB, your Surface Marker Buoy. So if you're a type of diver who likes to carry extra gear, backup gear with you, then this is the BC that you need to use. Really really comfortable. It also has integrated weight system, integrated dumbable weight system. And it also has ballast weight here. So you can really fine tune your trim and your buoyancy when you're in the water. Then this is the Hogg D3 regulator set. Environmentally sealed regulator. It's fully adjustable on the regulator here. Two points of adjustment on the regulator so you can really fine tune the airflow at any depth. And this regulator breathes easier than any regulator I've ever used. It's so smooth, so easy to breathe, you almost forget that the regulator's there. Really nice regulator. I've been using it for near years now. So awesome awesome gear. Hogg stands for highly optimized gear and it really is. It's really good stuff. So check out the Hogg Hybrid Pro BC and the Hogg D3 regulator set. This is the Fingerspool Line Reel and Surface Marker Buoy from Life League Gear. So you definitely want to have a pair of this on you while you're scuba diving at all times. Surface Marker Buoy, it inflates so you can connect this to the inflator hose on your BC. Blow this thing up really quick and it goes up to the surface to let boaters know that you're underwater and to be careful. So anytime you're scuba diving, you want to have one of these. If somehow you were to lose your dive flag or get too far away from the dive boat or get away from the dive group, you want to have one of these for emergencies. Keeps you safe in the water. It happens all the time guys. Divers come up to the surface, boaters don't see them, run them over. And also along with the SMB, you want to have this Fingerspool right here. So this one from Life League Gear is made out of anodized aluminum. It's really, really nice. It's got this double-sided clip here. So you're going to clip this to your Surface Marker Buoy, inflate it, and then as it starts going up, you just hold your finger in here and this line will unspool. And look at that. It's a really nice heavy-duty flat line, high vis. So you're going to be able to see it and as you're retrieving it, it rolls up really nice on this line here. Like I said, this one is really sweet anodized aluminum. Most reels like this on the market are, you know, cheap plastic. This one is really, really high quality. It's even got a swivel. Look at that. A stainless steel swivel here. So as your marker is sitting up there, it's not going to get wrapped up, get knotted up, anything like that. This thing is really nice. So let's put this down. I want to show you this Surface Marker Buoy here. It's got stainless D rings in it, so you can clip it onto your BC. It stays secure. It's got a bungee, which stays wrapped around it. But let's take the bungee off. Let's undo the Velcro and open this thing up. Look at this Surface Marker Buoy, how high vis it is, how big it is. Look at that. Really nice diver blow. It's got a reflective strip on it. So even if it was nighttime, boaters would still see this at nighttime. And like I said, it's got this valve here. You can orally inflate it or you can push this up against the inflator hose of your BC and it'll blow it up. And then when you're all ready to take this thing and deflate it, it's got a little pull handle here, a little valve here. Pull the handle, you can release the air out of it, roll it back up, rinse it off, and put it back in your dive kit for next time. So guys, safety is so important when you're out diving. Make sure you have an SMB and a really nice finger spool like this from Life League Gear.