Update: June 2024

While the Dive Rite Nomad LTZ is no longer being sold, we recommend checking out the Nomad Ray Sidemount BC. It has the Dive Right In Scuba stamp of approval!

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One piece of dive equipment that is important to correctly select and fit but is often purchased quickly in the few minutes before the first pool session of the basic open water class is a set of fins. While most will pick what looks cool and happens to be in stock at their local dive shop in a particular

It’s the problem that almost every new diver wrestles with, If you’re in this group I once also felt your pain. You look around at the other divers in the water with their great air consumption rates, nice hour long dives surfacing with a comfortable amount of reserve air and just looking chilled out

The size and type of cylinder you use for diving is one decision most divers wrestle over, and with a good reason. The diver’s cylinder most often determines what type of BCD, regulator first stage, weighting, and exposure protection a diver uses. Heck, it even defines what kind of diver you are and

So, you’ve become certified as an open water diver and perhaps taken an advanced open water course? Well, I’m sure that at this point in your diving adventures the local dive shop that you regularly walked into has made at least one, if not multiple attempts to get you to sign up for a Rescue

If you’re anything like me you’re probably looking at the snow banks outside, wondering if your pipes will freeze and your car will start in the morning. One heck of a time to be dreaming about dive season isn’t it? Well, there is no better time of the year to pull that dive equipment out of storage

With the buzz going around the dive world about this new thing called side mount, it’s hard to believe that it’s roots lie in the garages divers who needed a new solution that would allow them to explore caves too small to get into with large steel tanks on their backs. Even as recently as 5 years ago

In a previous article we discussed the various types of side mount systems geared towards the recreational, warm water crowd. If this is your type of diving “cup of tea” then the systems we discussed are for you! All are amazing, well built, streamlined units, but they do have limitations. What if you

    So, you’ve become certified as an open water diver and perhaps taken an advanced open water course? Well, I’m sure that at this point in your diving adventures the local dive shop that you regularly walked into has made at least one, if not multiple attempts to get you to sign up for a Rescue

Have you finally decided to venture into shipwrecks or caves? Are you just sick and tired of lugging around that huge plastic handheld cannon light? Is your pocket feeling the burn every time you drop and lose one of those tiny underwater “pen lights” on your dives? Well, friends and neighbors...it might