Freedive suggestions
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@Johnkokk No, the limit for rec dives is 40m, and few dive shops would take you below 30m actually. 60m is maximum operating depth (MOD) for air, which to this day remains then most widely used blend ️ Maybe because we have so much of it and free unlike helium
Also, from what I can see it seems there’s a consensus one goes CCR route once they start regularly scuba diving in excess of 60m simply due to gas costs and logistics. Not sure what’s the CCR story on Suunto products lately. I think DX and EON Steel had it but newer dive computers didn’t. Which isn’t surprising given Suunto choice of algorithms.
Which makes Ocean even more of a curiosity: 60m depth, multiple gases, EAN99, and deco are all tech features. And yet the watch is arguably a rec diving watch. Either Suunto knows something (standards gonna shift and more of tech stuff gonna trickle down to advanced rec) or… they simply run out of time and had to release something.
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@SebastianTj I believe the limitation applies to freediving as well. There is even a 60m depth alarm in freediving mode that you can’t remove.
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By the way, probably a bug in the app ( i haven’t checked in the watch).
I have GPS enabled during my spearfishing session.
When i sync the watch to the app, although the route is correct on the map (in the app), the distance that i made, is completely off.
I am guessing that the problem will exist in other swimming modes too.
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Hi Guys!
I’m Freediving Instructor, now testing Ocean. Used D4i, D5 and Garmin Descent MK2.So the watch is beautiful and sure underwater looks much pretty! AMOLED
What I need is customization of freediving mode . As for now I can customize run mode but not freediving. I want to add some data , change screen add and etc. Even D5 had it.
I cant find data speed of descent and ascent , only while diving
Suunto app doesn’t let you watch certain dive and its certain profile , just list it.
if I’m mistaken please correct me.
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I sold my OCEAN, because it seemed to me that, at least the freediving section, was very poorly implemented.
As a smartwatch/sportswatch is great, but as a diving computer, not.
No data screen customizations, the freediving screens missing data and/or basic data are hidden under various screens, etc.
No surface time alarms also.It just wasn’t for me.
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@Johnkokk May be it’ll come in updates
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Garmin has a switcher from Fresh to Sault Water. Here we don’t have it. So the measurements can be little wrong . What others think ?
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@Maximfreediver said in Freedive suggestions:
Garmin has a switcher from Fresh to Sault Water. Here we don’t have it. So the measurements can be little wrong . What others think ?
the difference is around 3% if I am right.
So instead of 30m you are at 31m of depth. I think this is pretty insignificant…
Plus: different oceans have different salt content. So it differs from baltic sea to red sea to dead sea… -
@Egika sure
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@Egika
Even more important is the fact that decompression is more dependent on pressure than on depth… so having a ‘depth representing current pressure’ makes a lot of sense.