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A load of new gear debuted in 2012, and the ScubaLab team dive-tested just about all of it. After digging deep into both objective and ergonomic test results, on the following pages we celebrate the year’s top-performing fins, BCs, regulators and dive computers, along with some first-rate travel bags, warm-water wetsuits and a couple of our top picks for safety gear.

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In 2012, ScubaLab tested new and redesigned fins and these four models were this year's top guns.

Of the 11 data crunchers in ScubaLab’s 2012 shootout, these six models showed they had the right stuff.

In this year’s highly competitive field of 3 mm wetsuits, these four stood head-and-shoulders above the rest.

From our recent test of the latest BCs, these four models were the clear performance leaders.

This year ScubaLab put a group of new regulators through a grueling test regimen — these four models were the top performers.