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Gear Review: Golem (iQSub) 330m / 1000ft GoPro Dive Housing

by Phil on February 04, 2013

Richard Wait:

Dive gear is rated much deeper than you would go because if you bump it in to something you increase the pressure dramatically. For instance if your gear is rated to 100 ft, you are at 100 ft, and bump into something you have a very good chance of flooding it, however, if it is rated to 1000 ft you're probably not going to have a problem.

Golem (iQSub) 330m / 1000ft GoPro Dive Housing

by Richard Wait on January 26, 2013

iQSub 330m/1000ft Dive Housing

Ultra secure locking mechaism.

Side by Side with the 60m Dive Housing

Beautifully Machined

Reviewed January 2013

Just like your 200m watch - but real...

Looking to take your GoPro to the deep on those super deep dives? But afraid the standard 60m housing will leak? Well the good folks at Golem Gear have the answer.

An aluminium (machined from one piece) colossal 330m / 1000ft monster.

I feel looking at this amazing housing, it really will survive a dive to these depths, but I have to wonder if its just for marketing. Maybe someone will use them one a ROV - but I can't see any 'diver' taking one of these to its limits. ...

Are we all smurfs?

by Chris W on January 16, 2013

Ok... time to pose a question...Why are the majority of drysuit glove systems blue???With the exception of my daughter who does actually dive in a two tone blue drysuit, pretty much everone else I know goes for variants around black. Personally I dive in black with a smattering of yellow and generally look like an aquatic wasp.. but even in my most boring suit, I have nothing that goes with bright blue hands.I'm usually the first to snigger at the colour co-ordinated, ink still damp on the OW cert squad for who its more about the esthetic rather than the experience, but in this instance I can't help being a fashion victim.Put me out of my misery - is there some scientific / historic...

Dive with comfort: the thermo-formed mouthpiece

by Ksso on July 07, 2012

If you have been diving a bit, you may have encountered that jaw muscles fatigue after a long dive where you've been biting that mouthpiece a bit too hard. This is even more common on rental regulators where I've experiences the most oddly shaped mouthpieces ever. Even since I got my own regs, and despite the overall comfort bump they brought me, I kept finding myself over-biting the mouthpiece to ensure it stays firmly in my mouth.I've heard about those thermoformed mouthpieces for a while and when I finally found one in my LDS (local dive shop) I grabbed it and took it for a spin ! I bought the only brand they had: "JAX from DrBrux" which was co-branded by Mares (?) (apparently DrBrux...

Diveboard Feature Updates : new Home, Gear

by Ksso on October 28, 2011

This week's update is pretty exciting, finally a home-page that's both simple and elegent at explaining Diveboard. We probably tried telling a bit too much thus the previous homepage which didn't convey a simple message... Diveboard is your online logbook !We realized it's important we focus even more on what you guys need... thus we've been doing our best adding new features to the logbook.This week we added the Gear support. In the bulk editor, you'll find a gear section where you can list the gear you own along with the maintenance data... and when you log a dive just mark which gear you've used, we're track down their usage for you (so you won't end up in a bad situation as I did not...

Gear review: TUSA gloves DG-5600

by Ksso on October 22, 2011

I've been diving without gloves for years. At a number of occasions I did regret not wearing some though... I still remember that dive in Cyprus in Amphorae's Cave where the drift was so strong I was basically hanging at the reef like a gecko. In those circumstances even if you take extra careful steps in where lay your hands... it would still feel more secure to wear a pair of gloves - there were a couple times where I remember my hand being unexpectedly close to urchin's spikes.As an underwater photographer, though, I need as much dexterity as I can on my fingers (tiny buttons to push/turn to set aperture and shutter...) so I ended up thinking gloves are not an option.This just changed...

GoPro and Scuba

by Ksso on August 03, 2011

GoPro is a tiny camera dedicated to catching the excitement created by extreme sports in HD. It can be easily stuck to about anything and, best of all in our case, it comes with an underwater housing that can get down to 180feet / 60m! Many have adopted it (see below Joi wearing a GoPro HD Helmet HERO Cameraon his helmet). It comes with a variety of hooks and straps making it easy to stick it to your gear.

To make things even better, Snake River Prototyping has released an adapter for the GoPro Hero HD POV cam's underwater housing. BlurFix fixes the GoPro HD underwater focus issue by placing a flat 55 mm filter in front of the housing's OEM fish-eye lens. Included with the lens is a low...

Cressi Travelight BCD

by Ksso on August 01, 2011

If you're like me and like to take your trusted and loved gear with you whenever you're going for a dive, you'll love Cressi's latest BCD dubbed "Travelight". Check out this video from Steve demoing it. As you can see, despite the small form factor when packed it's perfectly full-featured.The Cressi Sub Travelight BC retails under 430USD and weights about 6 pounds / 2.8kg.