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An Apple Watch displaying dive metrics.
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A map and key environmental metrics on an iPhone display screen.
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Graphs displaying depth and different metrics.
In September, Apple introduced a brand new wearable referred to as the Apple Watch Ultra, and one of many firm’s key pitches for the system was its use as a diving pc. Now Oceanic+, the app that makes that characteristic potential, launched completely for the Ultra, Apple introduced at present.
The Watch Ultra has depth gauge and water temperature sensors that drive among the options within the app. To entry just a few of these options—comparable to decompression monitoring—you will must subscribe to the app’s premium model for $4.99 per day, $9.99 monthly, or $79.99 per 12 months. There’s additionally a household plan at $129.99 yearly. If you do not subscribe, you may nonetheless use some key options like dive logs, depth monitoring, and so forth.
The app—which was developed in partnership with Apple by an organization referred to as Huish Outdoors, helps you to monitor dive circumstances like tides, water temperature, and extra. Here’s a fast abstract from Apple’s weblog submit announcement:
In the dive planner, customers can set their floor time, their depth, and their fuel, and Oceanic+ will calculate their No Deco (no-decompression) time—a metric used to find out a time restrict for a diver at a sure depth. The planner additionally integrates dive circumstances, together with tides, water temperature, and even up-to-date data from the neighborhood, comparable to visibility and currents. Post-dive, customers will see knowledge—together with GPS entry and exit places—routinely pop up on Apple Watch Ultra, together with a abstract of their dive profile. The abstract on the Oceanic+ iPhone app offers further data, together with a map of entry and exit places, in addition to graphs of depth, temperature ascent price, and no-decompression restrict.
A number of the options give attention to both planning dives upfront or viewing dive studies after you are carried out, however for people who you utilize underwater, the app makes use of haptics to ship you alerts. The Watch Ultra’s very vibrant display screen may also help with legibility underwater, too.
The app does not work with different Apple Watch fashions. To use it, you will want an Apple Watch working watchOS 9.1, and that Watch have to be paired with an iPhone 8 or later working iOS 16.1.
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