Buyer’s Guide to Scuba Fins

Read more on why fins matter and how to pick the right pair.
Dive Site: Nemo’s Reef

Shallow, familiar, endlessly surprising. Nemo’s reef keeps finding new ways to astonish.
Dive Site: Pilot Reef

A fortress reef with resting sharks in the caves and a wall of bannerfish nobody can explain.
Dive Site: Tribe Gate

Beneath this reef lies the ruins of a coral city. Its residents never left.
Dive Site: The Slope

An amphitheatre of coral ridges where the shrimp alone could fill an entire dive log.
Dive Site: Peel Lighthouse

A storm kept them close to shore. What they found there has a scooter in it.
Sharkskin Chillproof Thermal Protection – Review

Thinner than a wetsuit, warmer than you’d believe. Sharkskin might change how you dive.
Dive Site: The Wall

On one side, a coral ridge. On the other, a drop-off that never quite lets you go.
Review: Mares Pure SLS BCD

A mid-range BCD that punches above its weight — literally and figuratively.
Our Journey: First Dive Shop in the Andamans

Before Google Maps, before dive centres — just a fishing boat, a sea chart, and a hunch.