Shipping is weight-based and calculated at checkout, so you always see the exact amount before you pay. Typical starting rates for a lanyard-sized parcel:

• Belgium and Germany — from €6.90
• Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Poland, Hungary, Croatia — €8.90–10.90
• Most of the rest of the EU — €11.90
• Bulgaria, Slovakia, Cyprus, Malta — €18.90–21.90
• Norway and Switzerland — €23.90
• United Kingdom — from £15.90
• United States — from $35 · Canada — from CAD 43.90
• Rest of the world — from €30.90

Islands and remote territories. Some destinations cost more to reach than the mainland they belong to, and the rate reflects that. The Balearics, Las Palmas and Tenerife are €30.90 rather than the €11.90 mainland Spain rate — that is our carrier's cost, not a surcharge we add.

Small items such as a noseclip, ship at a lower rate.

We dispatch as quickly as we can, and within 3 business days at the latest. You'll get an order confirmation right after checkout, and a second message with the tracking number when the parcel leaves us.

Delays can happen during holiday seasons. If that affects your order, we'll tell you rather than leave you guessing.

If you need it faster, contact us before ordering — we can often arrange DHL Express delivery.

We ship worldwide from Belgium, to just over 70 countries. Select your country at checkout — if it isn't on the list, our carrier doesn't currently reach it, either because there is no working postal route or because of an embargo.

If your country is missing and you think it shouldn't be, let us know. We check these routes regularly and can sometimes find a way.

First, check your spam folder — the order confirmation and the tracking message sometimes land there.

If you have the tracking number and it hasn't moved in a while, or the parcel is clearly late, contact us. Deliveries can be slow, especially outside the EU and during holiday seasons, but we have never failed to deliver an order. We'll chase it with the carrier and get you your gear.

Yes. You have 30 days from receiving your order to request a return, and if you are in the EU you also have the statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for any reason at all.

The item needs to be unused and in its original packaging, and you need proof of purchase. Contact us to start a return and we'll send you a return label and instructions — please don't ship anything back before that, we can't accept unannounced returns.

Refunds go back to your original payment method within 10 business days of us receiving and inspecting the item.

Check your order as soon as it arrives and contact us straight away with a photo. We'll sort it out — replacement part, replacement product or refund, whichever makes sense.

Because our lanyards are built from separate components, a damaged carabiner or cable usually means sending you that one part rather than a whole new lanyard.

Every product carries the statutory two-year EU liability for defects.

On lanyards we go further: a three-year warranty. They are safety equipment, and they are built from replaceable parts — so in practice a warranty claim usually means we send you the part that failed, not a whole new lanyard.

Warranty covers manufacturing defects, not normal wear. For how long the parts are expected to last in use, see When should I retire a lanyard? under Lanyards.

Yes. If you're equipping a dive centre, a school, a club or a competition, get in touch and we'll work out pricing and delivery for the volume you need.

Tell me what you're actually running and I can help you work out what you need — I've spent enough years teaching and judging to know the difference between a kit list and a useful kit list.

Most freedivers use a wrist lanyard, and it's the right default: it's lighter, quicker to put on, and easy to release.

A belt lanyard makes sense if you prefer the load on your hips, or if a wrist attachment gets in the way of your pulling hand. It's heavier — 213 g in size M with an aluminium carabiner versus 150 g for the wrist version — and you need to know your belt size.

If you compete, know this one rule: AIDA allows a waist lanyard in CNF only (§4.1.17.1). For CWT, CWTB and FIM the lanyard has to be on your wrist or ankle. In training, use whichever you prefer.

Both use the same cables, carabiners and connection module, so you can move parts between them.

Shorter is simpler — less cable means less to tangle. We offer 60, 90, 110, 150 and 200 cm.

• 90 cm is the recommended default and works for CWT, CNF and most training.
• 60 cm suits divers who want the absolute minimum on the line.
• 110 cm is for FIM with an ankle attachment, or when you want more room to move around the line.
• 150 and 200 cm are for ice diving, training and line work.

If you compete: AIDA §5.1.14 requires the non-elastic link to measure 30–120 cm stretched, so only the 60, 90 and 110 cm cables are competition legal. The 150 and 200 cm cables are not.

Cables are sold separately, so changing your mind later costs €19.90–23.90 rather than a new lanyard.

Aluminium sinks at about 1 m/s, stainless steel at about 1.3 m/s. That means aluminium sinks at roughly the same speed as a freediver, while steel sinks faster than you do.

I use aluminium and recommend it as the default: it's lighter and noticeably easier to handle on the surface. Steel is the choice if you want the extra mass or the added abrasion resistance.

Neither one affects your dive speed. We tested several brands and carabiner-cable combinations over repeated 30 m dives with free fall, under standardised conditions, and found no difference.

Tested on a Lloyd LRX Plus materials testing machine with a 2.5 kN load cell:

• Full lanyard — 145 kg
• Lime green cable — 220 kg
• Black cable — 170 kg
• Wrist band — over 255 kg (the test bench maxed out)
• Belt — 170 kg

It also passed repeated sudden-load testing: a minimum of five drops of 5 kg from one metre.

One safety note that matters: the velcro must be fastened properly, pressed shut along its full length. These figures assume it is. If you want to know why a Velcro band holds a counter-ballast retrieval at all, we've written it up: The Wrist Band Closure Under Load.

At competition registration the jury has to check lanyard strength (§5.1.15), but the rules don't say how. That is why we publish these numbers — a judge who wants to be thorough needs something to check against.

Yes, and that's the point of the design. Every lanyard is built from three independent parts: the carabiner, the cable, and the wrist band or belt. A 2.5 mm Allen key is all you need to swap any of them.

So if you damage a cable on a trip, you replace a €20 cable — not the whole lanyard. All spare parts are in Parts & spares.

Our carabiners, cables and connection modules are cross-compatible across the whole FreeXperience range, including older models, and they also fit older Breatheology lanyards.

If you have something else and you're not sure, send us a photo of the connection point and we'll tell you straight whether it fits.

Yes. Our wrist lanyards are built to the construction requirements in AIDA World Apnea Rules & Regulations V17.8 (§5.1.14): a carabiner with no screws and no locking mechanism, a non-elastic link, a band that cannot come off by accident, and a quick release — a Velcro wrist or ankle band counts as one.

Two things depend on which options you pick, not on the lanyard itself:

• Cable length. The link must be 30–120 cm stretched. Our 60, 90 and 110 cm cables are inside that; the 150 and 200 cm cables are not.
• Wrist, not waist. A waist lanyard is allowed for CNF only (§4.1.17.1). For CWT, CWTB and FIM you need the wrist or ankle version.

The jury also checks lanyard strength at registration (§5.1.15). The rules require the check but don't define a test, load or pass criterion — so every jury does it differently. We publish our measured breaking data for exactly this reason, and I've written up a proposed method for judges: a 15 kg static lift held for 15 seconds, above the realistic retrieval load and non-destructive, so the athlete can dive the same lanyard afterwards. It's free to copy and adapt: Freediving Safety — Lanyard Testing.

Rules are revised. Always check the current rulebook and the event briefing for the competition you're entering.

There is no official standard for freediving lanyards, so these are estimates adapted from climbing gear guidelines:

• After a counter-ballast rescue with extreme loads, or any other damage — immediately
• Weekly use — 2 years or sooner
• A few times a month — 3 years
• Once a month — 4–5 years
• One or two times a year — 7 years
• Never used — 10 years

Inspect the cable and the crimps before every session regardless of age. And remember you can replace individual parts, so retiring a cable doesn't mean retiring the lanyard.

Lime green stays one of the most visible colours to the human eye underwater. In an emergency, seeing the cable matters.

It also creates minimal contrast against the surface when seen from depth, and marine life sees contrast rather than colour — even sharks are colour blind. So it's visible to you and unremarkable to everything else.

Measure your waist circumference with your wetsuit on, below the iliac crest:

• S — 65–75 cm
• M — 75–85 cm
• L — 85–95 cm
• XL — 95–105 cm
• XXL — 105–115 cm

Full table on the belt sizes page. If you're between sizes, take the larger one — the belt has an anti-slip inner surface and holds position either way.

Three models, three different jobs:

• Nylon (PA12) — the everyday choice. The lattice nosepads let water through, which keeps the grip even when you have sunscreen on. Widest colour range.
• Premium titanium — same fit, premium materials, built to last. For divers who use a noseclip constantly.
• Mini — 3D-printed from 316L stainless steel, small enough to wear inside your mask. That is what makes hands-free equalizing possible.

See them all in Noseclips.

For the nylon and titanium clips, Oval (20 × 25 mm) works for most freedivers. The Small / Round 20 mm is for a narrow nose. Full guidance on the noseclip sizes page.

The Mini sizes differently, by diver height rather than nose shape: S for under 170 cm, L for over 170 cm. See Mini sizes.

Yes — and the nylon model is specifically designed for the case where clips usually fail. The lattice structure in the nosepads lets water filter through instead of forming a slip layer, so it holds even with sunscreen on your nose.

Yes. The nylon and titanium clips have an emergency release on the cord — under load it detaches rather than pulling on your head or your mask.

It is there for the situation you hope not to have: something snags, or you need the clip off fast.

With the Mini, yes. It sits inside your mask and uses the 1+1 technique, so your hands stay free for the line — which is what you want on a deep FIM or CWT dive.

Hands-free equalizing is a skill that takes practice. The clip removes the physical obstacle; it doesn't do the equalizing for you.

The Mini is designed exactly for that — it is compact enough to fit inside the mask skirt, which is what makes hands-free equalizing work.

No. The Mini is 3D-printed from 316L stainless steel, which is the marine grade, and the premium model is titanium. The nylon clip has no corrodible metal in the contact parts at all.

Rinse in fresh water after a session anyway — it's good practice for the cord more than the metal.

It is a safety device with two jobs.

Day to day, it lets you set the depth of the line quickly and precisely — you run the rope through to whatever depth the diver wants.

In an emergency, it becomes rescue system. The automatic rope lock only lets rope run one way: towards the surface. So the safety diver simply starts pulling, and that is the whole procedure — no setup, no extra steps. If they lose their grip or tire mid-pull, the rope locks where it is instead of running back down.

Designed for 9–12 mm rope.

We don't publish a load figure, and we'd rather tell you why than quote one.

As far as we know, no freediving pulley on the market has measured load data behind it — there is no standardised test for this piece of equipment the way there is for climbing hardware. We are not going to put a number on ours that we haven't measured ourselves.

What we can tell you is the construction: the material choices are what make this pulley exceptionally durable, and it is built to last rather than occasional light duty. If measured data becomes possible, we'll publish it here.

You need one if you want a defined stopping point on the line — either at the bottom plate or without one. Ours is sized for both: big enough to work on a bare line, small enough to use with a bottom plate.

It is available with or without an ORCATORCH SD03 light built in. The lit version is worth it for low-visibility water and training, where darkness at the bottom is the actual problem.

Three things:

• the bottom plate itself, in anodised aluminium
• a mini-stopper to lock it in position on the line
• 5 tags for training

Designed for 9–12 mm rope, and made to work with tags straight away. Mini-stoppers are available in yellow and orange.

Four different jobs:

• D560 mask light — 9 cm long, up to 630 lumens. Mounts on your mask with the MX05 mount and rotates so you can aim it without moving your head.
• D580 bottom plate light — 530 lumens, mechanical rotary switch so it works with gloves and under pressure.
• SD03 stopper light — 4 colours, 8 modes, waterproof to 150 m. Fits inside the FreeXperience lanyard stopper.
• MX05 mask mount — the bracket that attaches the D560 to your mask.

All four are in Dive lights.

Yes, all of them — you can use them the day they arrive.

• D560 ships with a rechargeable AA-sized battery (the ORCATORCH 14500), which is where the 630 lumen figure comes from.
• D580 ships with a battery included.
• SD03 ships with a battery included.

Yes. I'm an AIDA instructor trainer and judge instructor, and I run AIDA courses and organise events — availability by month is on the courses page.

If you're buying gear because you're starting out, the course is the better investment. Get in touch and we'll figure out what makes sense for where you are.