Over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday of June 18–19, 2026, the waterfront at Moon Bay in Shenzhen's Nan'ao came alive for the 2026 Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen Nan'ao) Dragon Boat Carnival. Held in the Dapeng New District over the Duanwu holiday, the event paired world-class dragon boat racing with an immersive, sea-to-shore festival — and a dedicated marine-technology showcase built to put ocean-tech companies in front of the public and the press. DIVEVOLK was invited to take part, bringing its underwater smartphone ecosystem to the shoreline.
A festival from the sea to the shore
The carnival was staged to support Shenzhen's push toward becoming a world-class tourism destination and consumer hub, and it drew attention — and cameras — from national and regional media. On the water, crews from across the region went paddle-to-paddle in the dragon boat races that give the Duanwu festival its name. The Dragon Boat Festival is recognized by UNESCO as part of China's intangible cultural heritage, and Moon Bay's natural amphitheater of hills and sheltered water made a striking backdrop for it. By race time, a colorful fleet of dragon boats sat lined up at the start, bows pointed down the bay.
Off the water, the whole bayfront was turned into an immersive Duanwu carnival. Intangible-heritage crafts, live performances, food stalls, ocean "black tech" and even an interactive humanoid robot rotated through a packed schedule of themed activities — a reminder that the festival is as much about culture and community as it is about competition.
DIVEVOLK at the marine-tech showcase
As part of the carnival's marine-technology program, DIVEVOLK set up its own booth on the promenade to show visitors how an ordinary smartphone becomes a capable underwater camera. The display brought together the full DIVEVOLK system: SeaTouch underwater phone housings, wide-angle and macro lenses with color-correction filters, and dive lights, all built around the principle that the best underwater camera is the phone you already own.
At the center of the table sat a complete shooting rig — a SeaTouch 4 Max Plus housing on a tray with dual handles, twin video lights and a wide-angle lens — exactly the kind of setup a diver would carry to a reef. Curious passers-by stopped to handle the gear, work the housing's full-touchscreen controls, and ask how it holds a seal to depth.
SeaLink takes the stage
The headline of the booth was DIVEVOLK's newest product: SeaLink, an underwater signal transmitter for smartphones. SeaLink is built to solve a problem that has always isolated divers — the moment you go under, your phone goes offline. With SeaLink, the phone stays connected: underwater video calls, real-time water-to-surface communication, live underwater broadcasting, and phone networking below the surface all become possible.
On the display, a SeaLink unit ran a sample underwater livestream beside a full-face dive mask — a glimpse of how a diver could narrate a dive in real time, or stay in voice contact with the surface throughout. Beyond recreational sharing, the team highlighted what that connectivity could mean for conservation and research: a way to stream what's happening underwater, as it happens, to people who never get in the water. You can read more about how SeaLink keeps divers connected on its product page.
Live on Shenzhen TV
The interest wasn't only from the crowd. DIVEVOLK was invited to a live interview with Shenzhen TV, walking viewers through SeaLink and the wider underwater-camera system on air — a welcome chance to explain, to a broad audience, why making the ocean easier to capture and share matters.
Back at the booth, the team kept up a steady rhythm of hands-on demos, fitting phones into the SeaTouch 4 Max Kit and showing how the native camera app stays fully usable through the case — no app pairing, no Bluetooth lag, just tap-to-shoot down to depth.
An event that fit the brand
It was a fitting setting. A festival born on the water, drawing crowds to the shoreline, with a tech showcase asking how we explore and share the sea — that is exactly the conversation DIVEVOLK exists to have. Plenty of visitors left carrying the brand's orange tote bags, and, we hope, a new sense that the underwater world is closer than they thought.
And between demos, there was plenty to take in: lion dancers weaving through the plaza, the hum of an interactive humanoid robot at a neighboring stand, and the constant, distant drumbeat of the boats out on the bay.
That mix of old and new — folk tradition next to ocean tech — was the whole point. A short walk from the lion dancers, a humanoid robot drew its own crowd at the marine-tech expo, a fitting neighbor for a booth about bringing the sea online.
Our thanks to the organizers of the 2026 Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen Nan'ao) Dragon Boat Festival, and to everyone who stopped by the booth. If the festival left you wanting to bring your own phone underwater, start with a SeaTouch housing — and let's keep finding new ways to share the stories of the underwater world.
