Awesome Diving

This awesomely creepy tiki mug features a deep sea diver who never made it back to the surface after drinking too many mai tais. The 16 oz. ceramic mug has a distressed green finish outside and a rich ocean blue interior. Designed by Tom “Thor” Thordarson for Tikiland Trading Co., it makes a great gift for tropical drink connoisseurs.

While snorkeling in the Philippines, adventure-seeker Tobi Konopac handed his insta360 action camera to local freediver Mar Ravile. The man held his breath, dipped beneath the water, and disappeared. With no oxygen bottle or dive gear, he dove down 50 feet and captured an amazing video of what he saw.

The Swatch Scubaqua collection features see-through analog watches inspired by jellyfish. They’re made using bio-sourced materials and offer a dive-friendly case that resists water down to 10 bar or 330 feet. There are five colors in the lineup but the vibrant yellow-green Egg Yolk is the standout in our opinion.

Athlete Laura Marino takes us on an amazing adventure as she leaps off a bridge in Paris and lands underwater in another place. In Escape, the pro cliff jumper visited shipwrecks, a sunken village, and other enchanting locales. The film was written, directed, produced, and edited by Marino and Mathieu Brulard, and shot entirely on GoPro action cameras.

Initially released in the 1960s, Wolbrook’s dive watch returns with a modern makeover. Hand-assembled in France, the Skindiver Automatic is powered by the Miyota 8315 movement with 60 hours of reserve. Hexaplex construction provides enhanced shock- and water resistance. It’s available in a variety of dial, digit, and strap color combinations.

A limited edition diver’s watch that pays homage to the NASA Artemis Moon exploration program. The watch features a glow-in-the-dark dial that depicts the Orion constellation, the eponym of the spacecraft that will take the Artemis team to space in 2025. It also has two NASA-themed straps and a bezel inspired by the rocket launch sequence.

While diving in Lempeh, Indonesia, Pall Sigurdsson came across a tiny coconut octopus wearing a plastic cup. Realizing it needed a sturdier survival shelter, he stayed patiently on the seafloor with the little guy while his fellow divers collected shells. After checking out a few options, the octopus settled into its new and improved home.

Most watches have some degree of water resistance, but if you plan on diving deep beneath the water’s surface, you need a proper dive watch. These hefty timepieces are designed for easy reading underwater and some can handle the pressures at depths up to 300m. Everyday Carry shares their top picks for dive watches in 2022.

Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives recounts the story of the Thai soccer team who became trapped in a cave during a rainstorm. As the news of their situation broke, thousands of volunteers and Thai forces teamed with some of the world’s most skilled divers to pull off the daring rescue. In theaters 7.29.22 and Prime Video 8.5.22.

Finding water inside your house is one of the last things you want to experience as a homeowner. YouTuber President Chay has the opposite mindset – at least if he can live in this watertight house that he and his buddies built. It took some serious trial and error, but he was ultimately able to go for an indoor dive.

The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences answers a question none of us had, but are nonetheless fascinated by the answer. We now know that if you crack open an egg while diving 60 feet below the ocean’s surface, its yolk and white hold together as a unit. We wonder if they brought a hot pan with a lid down there if the egg would cook.

Thanks to their seemingly endless supply of wealth, Dubai continues to build many of the world’s most over-the-top attractions. Among them is Deep Dive Dubai, a crystal-clear diving pool that’s 196 feet deep at its lowest point. But that’s wasn’t enough. They filled the structure with the ruins of a post-apocalyptic city.

A Swiss-made wristwatch inspired by the mythical lost city of Atlantis. Combining a pearlescent abalone shell dial and Super Luminova markers, its display is legible in dark, undersea environments or at night on dry land. It’s water-resistant to 300 meters, and its automatic movement has a 40-hour power reserve.

During a dive in 2019, conservationist and freediver Ocean Ramsey came face to face with one of the most impressive sharks ever seen. Ocean and her team from OneOceanDiving encountered the 20 foot long, 8 foot wide great white shark while in the waters off the shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

After an earlier experiment with trying to get sharks to swarm into human blood, Engineer Mark Rober teamed up with Discovery’s Shark Week to build a single-person shark cage, and headed into the waters of the Bahamas to see if he could get a feeding frenzy going around him using fish blood instead.

When it comes to heading beneath the sea, you need a watch that can withstand both the water and the pressure, while keeping accurate time and remaining legible during dive missions. Everyday Carry picked out 16 great dive watches which are up to the task underwater, but also great for everyday wear.