New GrassyCore LED With Record-Breaking Color Rendition by Volx Japan

The new GrassyCore LED light is an exciting new collaboration between two major light manufacturers, Volx Japan and HM Electronics of Taiwan. For years Volx Japan has been the market leader for bleeding edge LED spotlights, most recently with their…

Bazaruto Ocean Guardians Film Wins Sylvia Earl Short Film Award

Even the smallest islands on the most remote coastlines of the world cannot escape ocean plastic. Finn White-Thomson, a London-based filmmaker recently won the 2017 Sylvia Earle Conservation Award by the My Hero Film Festival team for his short film about…

This Clever Regulator Hack Will Save Space In Your Gear Room

Having worked in several dive shops, and dove with a few dozen more, it always interests me to see how each center organizes their gear room. Different dive shops have a different protocol about where they rinse, dry and store…

New Vital Wave LEDs Are Serving Up A Rainbow of Color

Simple LED Spotlights have mostly given way to controllable fixtures in the Western reefing aquarium scene, but new controllable versions from Vital Wave are packing a ton of new heat. Not only are these new Vital Wave LED spotlights controllable…

Best Reef Tank Teardown Time Lapse Video

Reef tanks don’t last forever, but it’s nice when they go out on a high note. Usually when a reef is shut down, it’s because of some aquarium catastrophe, or extraneous circumstances related to the house in which it resides. …

100 Articles Of Reefing

100 Articles Of Reefing This past week I had to transfer a lot of material from a company computer to my personal computer. I had written a lot of the articles for ReefBuilders on that computer, so while I was…

Friday Smorgasbord: Drifting Plastics, GBR Value, Reef Rescue and Whales

This week’s Friday Smorgasbord has a conservation feel to it. We didn’t set out that way, but these compelling videos that captured our attention just set the theme. We first start with just where that plastic in our oceans ends…

Royal Caribbean Partners With Snapchat To Introduce The ‘SeaSeeker’ Mask

Royal Caribbean has partnered with social media company Snapchat to introduce a new way to share your scuba diving adventures. Royal Caribbean a cruise liner company, has designed a new scuba diving mask called the SeaSeeker with a pair of…

A Voyage Through The Pacific – The Seattle Aquarium

We have a confession to make: We love public aquariums and we have a goal to visit as many as we possibly can throughout our travels. We recently stopped by the Seattle Aquarium and had an incredible afternoon viewing some…

CYANO Is A New Dive Computer From Korea

The CYANO is a new dive computer that has been popping up at dive and leisure shows across Korea since the start of 2017. CYANO is a wrist-worn dive computer that looks like a carbon copy of an apple watch, peppered with bluetooth social…