Awesome Diving

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.

Meet Spitfire. He’s a 7-year-old whippet with an impressive track record as the world’s best dock diver, which as we just learned, is a competitive dog sport. ESPN takes us inside the world of this talented canine, whose records seem as untouchable as the best athletes of all time. (Thanks Zico!)

They guys from DD Squad rigged up a crazy zipline with a hard stop in the middle, making their athletes catapult into the river below when they hit the sweet spot. Given their acrobatic skills, they had to show off with some crazy flips.

Director Tom Waller’s film tells the true story of the Thai soccer team who found themselves trapped deep within a cave, kicking off a global rescue effort, resulting in acts of true heroism and bravery, and some strange behavior from Elon Musk. Premieres at the Busan Film Festival.

Get the best possible view of sea creatures and scenery with this full-face snorkeling mask. It offers a wide 180-degree field of vision, resists fogging, and allows for easy breathing through both mouth and nose. It also has a GoPro-compatible mount. Save 59% in The Awesomer Shop.

Stig Pryds was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008. It cost him his business and more. But 5 years into the pain and drug dependency, he went cold turkey and sought alternative ways of fighting his ailment. Daan Verhoeven’s short film is a true inspiration.

Freediver Guillaume Néry shares this soothing and stunning short film that seamlessly edits his dives in different seas around the world – one amazing shot after another. The film reaches its peak when he encounters marine life.

Diver Phill Gordon captured this incredible, but all too short footage of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef using his GoPro Fusion 360º camera, switching into “overcapture” mode to produce a spherical projection of the fish as they swim around his fellow undersea explorers.

The Supa Huka lets you dive as freely as if you were snorkeling. The device floats on the water and sucks air from the surface, delivering it to you down to a depth of 30ft. It lasts for 2h per charge. It also has a storage compartment and has a USB charger.

There’s just something so peaceful about this video of champion freediver Stig Pryds, as he put his body into the lotus position, held his breath, then sank to the bottom of NEMO33 – a 33-meter (~108-foot) deep swimming pool.

Quiksilver worked with scuba expert Aqua Lung to create an emergency life vest for surfers. The Highline Airlift Vest has room for four CO2 cartridges, each linked to an easy access pull tab. The vest also has a deflation tab and an oral inflation tube.

Seiko’s SRP aka Baby Tuna watches are “babies” only in the sense that they’re a tier below the SBN Tuna diver’s watch. But it’s still an imposing pro-grade 50mm watch. The SRP641 is on Massdrop for a limited time for just $230, but Amazon is just a few bucks more.

An action camera designed for divers. It has large buttons with haptic feedback, automatic color correction based on your depth, and lets you overlay the time, depth and temperature in your videos. It uses a 140º lens with LDC, and shoots 720p/1080p/4K videos and 8MP stills.

For their wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. SmarterEveryDay went to Iceland and tried drysuit diving at Silfra, Iceland. It’s the only place in the world where you can dive between two continental plates, and has incredibly clear and clean water.