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Detail View QLR4 Pocket
Detail View QLR4 Pocket

Oceanic recalls BCDs with QLR4 weight pockets

1 year ago By Chief minion

The recalled devices include the following models: Oceanic OceanPro, Oceanic Excursion, and Oceanic Hera with serial numbers: 608262 through 695909, 1170357 through 1180342, 1200001 through 1200070 and 20031001 through 22082698.

Only these models in any of these serial number ranges and QLR4 Pocket Handles that DO NOT contain a date code on the underside are included in the recall.

The serial number can be found on the product warning label located on cummerbund:

SubGravity Wetnotes

1 year ago By Chief minion
SubGravity Wetnotes
SubGravity Wetnotes

Designed for underwater writing, this waterproof notebook of plastic paper from the Utah-based American dive equipment manufacturer is wrapped with a cover of heavy duty Cordura. It comes with a non-wood pencil and slots for other pencils and a compass, as well as an eye for hooking a double end bolt snap.

Capturing Emotion in Underwater Photography

Words
Cristian Umili
Images
Cristian Umili
Fish photographed from the front
A head-on photograph of a fish allows one to “look the fish in the eye,” arousing many more emotions in the viewer. Photo by Cristian Umili
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When immersing ourselves in the underwater world, we experience a flood of emotions—both in relation to the depths and to being in an environment that is not our own, in which we can almost fly. But our encounters with marine life excite us even more, especially with sharks, dolphins and huge shoals of fish, but also small and colourful nudibranchs, or microscopic shrimps.

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