The dive ends.
The good bits carry on.

A little of the world
beneath the surface.

We’re Anouk and Greg. A few years ago, we fell in love with the warm water, colourful reefs and incredible variety of life in Southeast Asia. We’ve been diving together ever since, exploring our way across Indonesia. Batu Bolong is our favourite dive site.

Underwater, a small hand signal says a lot. Look over there. Are you okay? We love that we can share a whole dive without saying a word. That shared language gave us the name SafetyStop and the signal we wear back on land.

In recreational scuba diving, a typical safety stop is a shallow pause during a controlled ascent, commonly at around five metres for three minutes. It gives the body additional time to eliminate nitrogen absorbed during the dive. We see it as part of responsible diving: taking our time and looking after each other all the way to the surface.

By the end of a dive, we’re often cold and still finding things to look at. One more fish. One last patch of colour. Then it’s back to the boat, out of the wetsuit and into a dry t-shirt.

It’s the two of us behind SafetyStop. We make the designs and run the shop together. The clothes are for the part that comes next: salt in your hair, coffee in your hand and a dive you’re still talking about.

We want the shop to help look after the places that brought us here. Our 5:3 Pledge makes reef protection part of every tee and cap we sell. A small commitment, with a record you can follow.

Anouk & Greg