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What Is ScubaLab?

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Inside scuba diving's premier equipment reviews

Think of ScubaLab as the Consumer Reports of the scuba diving world. After all, ScubaLab has equipped active divers with the most reliable scuba-diving gear information since 1992. ScubaLab's test team, which boasts a combined 62 years of scuba diving experience, generates this info in a couple of ways. First, they put each piece of scuba diving gear through a range of objective tests using sophisticated equipment and testing facilities like breathing machines, hyperbaric chambers, test pools and digital speedometers.

Next, ScubaLab takes scuba diving equipment out of the laboratory and into the water, employing a team of experienced divers to investigate how everything from BCs and fins to dive computers and regulators will perform in the real world. The detailed data that results from this testing is the most valuable information on scuba diving equipment available anywhere. 60-Second ScubaLab is the latest extension of ScubaLab's unmatched expertise. Packed with ScubaLab's insightful evaluations, these informative video snapshots put the latest and greatest scuba diving equipment in front of divers like you faster than ever before. With 60-Second ScubaLab, you'll stay up to the minute on what's new in scuba diving gear.

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