I’m also finding diving with the Suunto Ocean difficult due to the design of the dive mode screen.
I have air integration, and need to have tank pressure always visible.
I need to always have compass heading displayed, and it should show a visual north indicator like in regular compass mode.
I would like the ability to mark / save a heading (the outer ring / arch area would be ideal for this). Shearwater Teric does this really well.
To achieve this I’d like to have multiple fields in dive mode that I can configure to display the information that I need for that dive – I’d be fine doing this in a pre-dive settings screen to keep the dive mode itself simple.
Cycling through all the bottom window options is very cumbersome. It’s particularly problematic when I have the heading displayed and someone asks me for my remaining air as it’s taking too long and leading to a stressful situation. I am spending too much time looking down at the watch, cycling through options and often overshoot.
For any information display area that is changeable in dive mode, I’d like to be able to configure which pieces of information are available for being cycled through to reduce the number of presses. Again this could be configured pre-dive.
I do love the Suunto Ocean as an activity watch, but it is frustrating as a dive watch and I would not recommend it with the current software. I’m considering selling it. I hope the software can be improved.