Which strap do you use for safe diving?
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Last weekend I used my Suunto Ocean for the first time. Suunto had a 24mm NATO/ZULU strap for another computer, however, for the Ocean I don’t see something similar.
On the one hand, we need longer straps to wear over the wetsuit and on the other hand, we need them to be secure. With a NATO/ZULU, if one pin breaks, the computer hangs on the other pin. With a normal watch strap like the one we have in the Ocean, if a pin breaks, the watch falls off.
Which strap do you use?
Is Suunto thinking of bringing out a NATO/ZULU type long diving strap?
This is the Suunto strap that exists in 24mm:
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@valentoni The key feature seems to be that the strap is „one piece“, not an „upper piece“ with buckle and a „lower piece“. Means: the strap runs through under the watch and thus blocks the optical heart rate sensor. Which wouldn’t matter during diving when the watch is over the wet suit anyway, but some users would likely want to change the strap back after diving to use OHR. And then change again before the next dive.
Thus there might never be an official Suunto strap and you might have to get a third party strap?
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Exactly, during a dive the heart rate does not matter. I used to change the strap when I got out of the water with the D5.
Which straps do you use?
It is important that the strap is ‘one piece’, not a ‘top piece’ with a buckle and a ‘bottom piece’ and that it is long enough.
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Hi again!
So I present you my two new Suunto straps (waiting for Suunto to launch something officially compatible).
They are rubber, thin and comfortable.
As you can see, the short strap has the hole for the sensor to work, and the long strap is intended for diving use, so it has no hole and also has the 5 rings to properly secure the watch.
What do you think?
As additional security, in one of the rings would go a small line and a bunguee.