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DEMA Show® 2026

New Orleans, USA

The major trade-only event for the international diving, dive-travel and action-water-sports industry. DEMA says the 2026 anniversary edition brings 500+ exhibitors, 7,000+ professionals and 250+ education sessions.

InterDive Friedrichshafen 2026

Friedrichshafen, Germany

Especially relevant for Central Europe: a dive and travel exhibition in the Germany–Austria–Switzerland border region, focused on diving, equipment, destinations and industry exchange.

Asia Dive Expo Japan 2026

Tokyo, Japan

ADEX Japan at Tokyo Big Sight combines dive equipment, marine tourism, underwater imaging, ocean technology, conservation and education.

Paris International Dive Show 2027

Paris, France

A major public European dive show with equipment, destinations, clubs, training, underwater imaging, talks and ocean-focused exhibitors.

boot Düsseldorf 2027

Düsseldorf, Germany

The huge international watersports exhibition includes a substantial dedicated diving area with equipment, destinations, presentations and industry brands.

GO Diving Show UK 2027

Coventry, United Kingdom

A dedicated consumer dive show covering equipment, destinations, training, technical diving, photography, conservation and hands-on activities.

Avelo System — a different approach to buoyancy

The Avelo System replaces the traditional BCD-and-cylinder buoyancy concept with a Hydrotank and Jetpack. Water is pumped into the Hydrotank to compress its internal breathing-gas bladder and change system density, allowing the diver to establish neutral buoyancy without repeatedly adding and venting air from a BCD.

Why it matters: Avelo is one of the more genuinely different recreational scuba equipment concepts to appear in recent years.

Suunto Nautic — large-screen next-generation dive computer

Suunto’s Nautic is the larger member of its new Nautic family. The current product combines a large AMOLED display, wireless tank-pressure support, multi-gas and sidemount modes, GPS and underwater-route tracking, Suunto App integration and an integrated LED flashlight.

Suunto rates the Nautic for up to 120 hours of dive time on one charge under stated conditions.

Why it matters: a modern large-screen platform that now reaches from recreational diving into increasingly technical functions through firmware.

Suunto Nautic S — compact AMOLED sibling

The Nautic S brings much of the Nautic concept into a smaller watch-style format. Suunto lists a bright AMOLED display, wireless tank pressure, single- and multi-gas modes, sidemount support, GPS, offline maps, weather tools and Suunto App connectivity.

It is rated for roughly 40–60 hours of dive battery life, depending on use and configuration.

Why it matters: it gives divers a smaller everyday-wear alternative without reducing the product to a simple entry-level computer.

Cressi Da Vinci — full-colour wide-screen recreational computer

Cressi’s Da Vinci uses a full-colour TFT LCD with integrated digital compass, Bluetooth connection to the DiveSync app and USB-C charging. It supports Air, Nitrox and Gauge modes and can manage up to four gas mixes with in-dive gas switching.

Cressi states that the Da Vinci uses a Bühlmann ZHL-16C decompression algorithm with adjustable gradient factors and conservatism.

Why it matters: Cressi is moving toward a modern colour-screen, rechargeable and connected computer while keeping the feature set focused primarily on recreational and advanced nitrox diving.

Halcyon SYMBIOS CM eCCR — connected CCR ecosystem continues to evolve

The Halcyon SYMBIOS CM eCCR is integrated into the wider Symbios ecosystem, with wireless CCR communication to the Symbios handset/HUD and support for oxygen-sensor information, diluent and oxygen pressure data when transmitters are used, bailout-mode integration and decompression information.

Halcyon’s July 2026 firmware release expanded connectivity, CCR functionality, dive planning and customization across the platform. Halcyon’s documentation also describes automatic CCR activation through oxygen supply or loop assembly and automatic bailout-mode switching when the Symbios BOV sensor is used.

Why it matters: rather than treating the CCR as an isolated breathing machine, Symbios is being developed as a connected diving platform.

Suunto Nautic Goes CCR — Firmware 2.55.46 Hands-On

We explored the Nautic's new dedicated CCR mode hands-on: CC diluent and OC bailout gases, hypoxic Trimix, automatic and manual setpoints, Bailout TTS and the customizable CCR switch-window views.

Inside the update: what Suunto documents, what we verified on the computer, and the CCR details we still want to test underwater.

Suunto Nautic firmware 2.55.46 adds CCR mode

Suunto’s latest Nautic release notes add a dedicated CCR dive mode, CCR diluent and bailout gases, automatic and manual setpoint functions, CCR-specific switch-window information and more gas slots.

The release also adds heart-rate-belt pairing and allows active gas mixes below 18% oxygen in CCR and Multigas modes at the surface, alongside numerous bug fixes and planner/display improvements.

This is a significant expansion of the Nautic from advanced open-circuit computer toward a broader technical-diving platform.

Nautic S update 2.54.12 expands dive functions

The Nautic S software update added a helium option to Multigas mode, user-defined remaining-gas-time alarms with the Tank POD, dynamic apnea/pool mode, freediving water-type settings, additional GF data fields and a low-PPO₂ alarm.

A good example of a recreational-sized computer gaining more advanced functionality after launch through software rather than new hardware.

Halcyon expands the SYMBIOS ecosystem

Halcyon’s July firmware release expanded Symbios connectivity, CCR functionality, planning and customization. The update applies across the connected platform rather than treating the computer, HUD and CCR head as isolated products.

For the CM eCCR this reinforces Halcyon’s concept of a connected diving ecosystem with computer, HUD, gas information and CCR functions communicating together.

Cressi Da Vinci brings colour, Bluetooth and Bühlmann ZHL-16C

Cressi’s current Da Vinci wide-screen computer combines a full-colour TFT display, compass, Bluetooth/DiveSync integration, USB-C charging and four-gas management.

The shift to Bühlmann ZHL-16C with adjustable gradient factors is particularly interesting for divers who want more transparent decompression customization in a mainstream recreational computer.

Wrecks, caves and expeditions

New wreck identifications, archaeological projects, cave exploration, photogrammetry, deep expeditions and meaningful discoveries can be collected here in a compact chronological feed.

Science that matters to divers

Selected underwater biology, reef science, conservation, citizen-science projects, marine protected areas and underwater research — especially when divers can observe, contribute or learn from the work.