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CPSC recalls involving scuba regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers, diving and snorkeling masks, and air hoses.
80 official CPSC notices published 1977–2026, covering at least 708,516 units.
Type the model number from your scuba diving equipment's label. Every model number named in a scuba diving equipment recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
36 model numbers
XDEEP 1st stage scuba regulators · 23-133 · 2023
Apeks Exotec SCUBA Diving Buoyancy Compensator Devices · 23-021 · 2022
Cressi-sub Scuba Buoyancy Compensator Devices · 23-013 · 2022
Aqua Lung buoyancy compensators · 15-022 · 2014
Aqua Lung buoyancy compensators · 13-146 · 2013
Miflex High Pressure Scuba Diving Hoses · 12-155 · 2012
Edge and HOG Buoyancy Control Devices · 11-212 · 2011
Ambient Pressure Diving Crimped Low Pressure Diving Hoses · 09-722 · 2009
Oceanic and AERIS SCUBA Regulator First Stages · 08-127 · 2007
Cressi-sub Buoyancy Compensators · 05-121 · 2005
Trident screw-in DIN Tank Valve Caps · 96-020 · 1995
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HEAD USA, Inc. dba Head Watersports
The recalled second stage regulators can restrict air flow to the user at depths exceeding 45 meters (approximately 147 feet), posing risk of serious injury or death from a drowning hazard.
The regulator inlet tube can crack and break, posing a risk of serious injury or death from drowning.
Poseidon Diving Systems
The recalled Poseidon M28A Dive Computers can stop working due to intake of water causing a malfunctioning depth sensor resulting in a loss of dive data for the diver, posing an injury hazard.
The handle for the weight pockets in the Scuba Diving Buoyancy Compensating Device can break during use. If this happens, the user will not be able to dump weight pockets in an emergency to rise to the surface, posing a drowning hazard.
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A defective screw on the turret connection can break, posing a risk of severe injury and drowning hazard for divers.
The compressor head of the tankless diving system can fracture while in use resulting in restricted air flow, posing a drowning hazard for divers.
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AQUALUNG Group
The dump valve knob can get stuck when the recalled BCD is inflated, opening the dump valve which stops the BCD from fully inflating. This can result in a loss of buoyancy control and poses injury (decompression sickness) and drowning hazards.
Defective metal fittings on the inflator hose can cause an airflow restriction and failure to inflate, or improper inflation of the BCD, posing a drowning hazard to the user.
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The recalled diving computers can fail to adjust to the user's altitude and display incorrect calculations for sea level dive times at altitudes exceeding 3,000 feet, posing injury (decompression sickness) and drowning hazards.
The internal part in the valve can malfunction while in use, causing loss of inflation and thermal protection, posing a risk of hypothermia to the consumer.
The deflation button can come unscrewed and result in loss of buoyancy, posing a drowning hazard.
The diving mask regulator can cause restricted airflow, posing an injury hazard to divers.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 69 of 80 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 80 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (3) and Costco (1) are the stores named most often in the 69 notices that say where scuba & snorkeling equipment were sold. 16 of the 69 notices mention online sales.
The 69 notices that give a price range from $10 to $10,000. Half of them name a price of $400 or less.
By the 69 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 14 months or less; the longest for 12 years. Half the recalls came within 21 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A replacement in 21 of the 36 notices that name a remedy, a repair in 14, a refund in 3. Some notices offer more than one.
Drowning is named in 49 of the 80 notices (61%), against 1% of all CPSC notices on file. Then laceration (3), impact (2), explosion (1), and fall (1).
50 of the 69 notices that describe incidents report at least one. 19 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
11 of the 80 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 36, date codes or manufacture dates in 11, UPC codes in 3, lot or batch numbers in 4. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “in white on the back of the unit and ends with 003”, “inside the jacket, near the small of the back”, and “on a rectangular label on the inflator body”.
United States (21), Italy (11), Taiwan (10), China (6) and Sweden (5), in the 66 notices that name a manufacturing country.
8 scuba diving equipment notices in 2021–2025, the same as in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 80 recall notices for scuba & snorkeling equipment since 1977, covering at least 708,516 units. The most recent is “Head Watersports Recalls Apeks Second Stage Scuba Regulators Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Drowning Hazard” (CPSC 26-677), announced August 6, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 2 recall notices for scuba & snorkeling equipment in 2026, the most recent on August 6, 2026 (CPSC 26-677).
“U.S. Divers and Aqua Lung Sport Brand Youth Snorkeling Masks Recalled Due to Laceration Hazard” (CPSC 13-134), announced March 7, 2013: about 130,000 units.
Brands named most often: Aqua Lung (6), Huish Outdoors (4), Pelagic Pressure Systems (4), Aqua Lung America (3), Cressi-sub (3), Scubapro (3), Trident Diving Equipment (3) and Aqua Lung Inc. dba U.S. Divers (2), plus 49 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 11 of the 80 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 36, date codes or manufacture dates in 11 and lot or batch numbers in 4.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across scuba diving equipment recalls, the remedies offered most often are replacement (21), repair (14) and refund (3).
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