New app to allow you to use your Apple watch and iPhone underwater
By DIVE Staff
Apple has teamed up with Oceanic to launch a dive computer app for its latest top-of-the-range watch.
The new Apple Watch Ultra will be able to be used to depths of 40m and combined with the Oceanic+ app will serve as a fully functioning scuba computer.
Mike Huish, CEO of Huish Outdoors , which owns Oceanic, said: ‘We’ve designed the Oceanic+ app with all the key features for recreational divers and snorkellers alike with a familiar user interface that makes it easy to plan your dives.
‘Even better, our dive planner goes beyond calculating just depth and time, by integrating dive conditions including tides, water temperature, and even up-to-date information from the community such as visibility and currents.’
The Oceanic+ app uses a Bühlmann decompression algorithm and moving between modes will be by screen swipes rather than pushing a sequence of buttons.
It will include GPS allowing you to log entry and exit points for dives. The app will automatically synchronise with your iPhone and you will be able to share your logbook via the app.
Oceanic is also launching a housing to take your iPhone underwater allowing you to use its sophisticated camera as well as the computer. The housing allows iPhone users to take colour-corrected pictures while seeing their dive computer information overlayed on the screen
‘We’re thrilled to partner with Apple to combine our world-renowned expertise in diving with the unique capability of the Apple Watch Ultra to turn the same watch you wear every day into an innovative dive computer,’ said Huish.
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