What Is ScubaLab?
ScubaLab founder Jon Hardy’s first report, on travel BCs, is published.
ScubaLab uses a chamber to test dive computers. Results of first regulator test are published in Scuba Diving magazine.
“How to Buy Your First Regulator” is published, kicking off a series on purchasing gear.
John Brumm is named ScubaLab Director; he is succeeded by Roger Roy in 2013.
ScubaLab conducts the largest comparative evaluations of regulators ever conducted (69 regs in all).
Fin tests conducted in Cozumel, Mexico; 320 test runs are made over a weeklong period.
ScubaLab publishes an explanation of the ANSTI breathing-machine tests, including an illustration of a breathing loop.
ScubaLab presents its16th annual “Best Gear of the Year,” which highlights the year’s Testers’ Choices.
For more than 20 years, the equipment-testing unit known as ScubaLab has been examining gear, compiling data and offering divers the most complete, unbiased reviews in the industry.
THE MISSION: Think of ScubaLab as the Consumer Reports of the scuba-diving world. After all, ScubaLab has equipped active divers with the most reliable scubadiving gear information since 1992.
ScubaLab’s test team generates this info in a couple of ways. First, it puts 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.
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