In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline talks with Dave Pollock, owner of Riptide Sales Group, from the show floor.

Riptide is a nationwide sales and marketing agency representing multiple dive, water sports, and lifestyle brands for retailers. In this interview, Dave gives us a look at their product lines creating interest with dive shops and consumers: Sublue personal underwater scooters.

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline continues his conversation with Dave Pollock of Riptide Sales Group for a closer look at one of Riptide’s popular retail brands: DIVEVOLK.

DIVEVOLK offers full touchscreen underwater smartphone housings that allow divers to use their phone functions underwater, including photo, video, apps, and more. In this interview, Louis from DIVEVOLK explains how the system gives divers access to the tools already built into their phones, while also opening new possibilities for underwater content creation, communication, and safety.

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline continues his conversation with Dave Pollock of Riptide Sales Group for a closer look at another one of Riptide’s featured retail lines: Victory - Made in the USA.

Allie, Riptide’s Victory product expert, explains how Victory helps dive retailers create fully customized sublimated apparel and accessories. With full sublimation, dive shops can take their own logos, trip designs, crew artwork, or retail concepts and apply them to a wide range of products.

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline continues his conversation with Dave Pollock of Riptide Sales Group for a closer look at one of Riptide’s popular retail lines: SUFFER.

SUFFER is known for boat coats, warming coats, parkas, and hoodies designed for divers, boaters, swimmers, and watersports enthusiasts who need to stay warm before, between, and after time in the water.

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline continues his conversation with Dave Pollock of Riptide Sales Group for a closer look at one of Riptide’s newest and most popular product lines: Crosskix.

Britain talks with Eric Saligumba, owner of Crosskix, about a shoe designed to go from travel to water to everyday use. Crosskix was created as a versatile travel shoe that can replace flip-flops, gym shoes, and water shoes, helping divers save space in their suitcase while staying comfortable throughout the day.

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline continues his conversation with Dave Pollock of Riptide Sales Group for a closer look at another one of Riptide’s featured product lines: Dive Lantern.

Dave introduces Nick from Dive Lantern, who walks us through the brand’s range of dive lights, from compact signal lights and tank lights to powerful primary lights for night diving, wreck diving, caves, swim-throughs, lobster hunting, photography, and general underwater exploration.

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John shares how Hudson Valley Commercial Diving is helping students move from recreational scuba into commercial diving through hands-on training on the Hudson River in Newburgh, New York. The conversation covers the pathway from mask-and-tank diving to surface-supplied commercial diving, including hard hats, umbilical lines, underwater communication, and real-world job opportunities in marine contracting, salvage, oil fields, unions, and other commercial diving sectors.

🕐Timestamps:

0:00 Welcome from Scuba Show, Long Beach

0:37 Meet John Antinori of Hudson Valley Commercial Diving

0:48 Training on the Hudson River in Newburgh, New York

1:00 Moving from recreational scuba to commercial diving

1:28 From mask and tank to hard hat and hose

1:47 Commercial diving job opportunities

2:25 Closing remarks

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In this special edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain talks with Shannon O’Brien and Sarah Trujillo from Bright Buoy Diving, a women-owned dive brand based in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii.

Bright Buoy started with coated dive weights made from recycled lead and has grown into a colorful product line that includes dive weights, silicone dive belts, printed belts, socks, fin cases, masks, and other thoughtfully designed dive accessories. Their products are designed for freedivers and scuba divers, with an emphasis on sustainability, style, boat-friendly gear, and creating more welcoming retail spaces for women divers.

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During the interview, Britain and Stephen discuss what makes Ocean Frontiers and Compass Point Dive Resort such a strong option for dive retailers, group leaders, and travel sellers planning trips to the Cayman Islands. Located on the East End of Grand Cayman, Compass Point Dive Resort offers a true dive-focused experience, with Ocean Frontiers operating right on site. As Stephen explains, guests can “roll out of bed and onto the dive boat,” with accommodations, breakfast, the dock, and the dive operation all in one convenient location.

🕐Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction from Britain Cline at Scuba Show Long Beach

00:20 Welcome Stephen Broadbelt of Ocean Frontiers

00:40 Compass Point Dive Resort and Ocean Frontiers on Grand Cayman’s East End

00:50 Why Compass Point is built for dive groups

01:06 Looking at the model of Ocean Frontiers’ custom dive boats

01:14 Purpose-built 46-foot dive boats for group travel

01:41 Roll out of bed and onto the dive boat

02:05 55 dive sites close to the resort

02:37 Best time of year to visit Cayman

03:17 Warm summer water and family travel

03:38 Turtle nesting, reef sharks, coral spawning, and workshops

04:26 Stephen’s favorite dive sites

04:57 Three-tank safari experience

05:06 Jack McKenny’s Canyon, The Maze, and reef sharks

05:27 Diving the Kittiwake shipwreck

05:35 Stingrays at the sandbar

05:50 Snapper Hole, caverns, anchors, and silversides

06:12 Wrapping up the best of Cayman diving

06:19 Closing remarks

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In this special on-location edition of Marketing Minutes by Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, Britain Cline walks the floor at the Scuba Show in Long Beach, California, and stops by the Spacefish Army booth to talk with Morgan, co-owner of Spacefish Army.

Morgan shares the story behind Spacefish Army, a swimwear, divewear, and activewear brand that blends bold design, bright colors, comfort, function, and durability for divers and water lovers. As both Morgan and her husband R.J. are Divemasters, the brand was built from real working dive experience. Their time working aboard Aggressor liveaboards helped shape the original concept: divewear that was easy to get on and off, durable enough for long days in and out of the water, and colorful enough for dive professionals to stand out when guiding groups.

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