Question Apple Watch Ultra 2

[ProfSox]

Hi all,

Any recommendations from AWU users for the AWU?
Looking to get a Dive Computer / smartwatch / health tracker for the surface.
I'm a PADI AOW vacation diver only. 1-2 trips a year, 2-3 weeks per trip, 2 dives per day.
Trips almost always at South East Asia, sometimes at the Caribbean.
I always go with a group and a Dive Master from a dive shop.
Really, I'm just looking for something that tells me depth, time, water temp while under.
Do you recommend it? With or without the Oceanic+ app?

 

[lexvil]

I just bought one, haven’t dived it but overall it’s very nice, holds a charge for a long time as a watch, I’m at 56% after 35 hours .
The dive setting seems to do well but like I said I have not dived it but did some swimming and it was responsive to depth in the 8’ I took it too.

I have installed to oceanic app but haven’t used it.
I’m hoping for an air integration app one day but as a smart watch I’m a fan.

 

[parzdiver]

I have the original Ultra. Great watch overall, and the scuba features are a bonus. If you want the full dive computer features, it is a simple activation for a month, then deactivate. It keeps all of the information so there is no down side.

 

[lexvil]

I have the original Ultra. Great watch overall, and the scuba features are a bonus. If you want the full dive computer features, it is a simple activation for a month, then deactivate. It keeps all of the information so there is no down side.

I believe there is also a daily option.

 

[ProfSox]

I believe there is also a daily option.

Yeah, there is a daily subscription.
The George Costanza in me is just acting up about the $10 monthly fee.
Even though I already am an iPhone user.
Is the underwater compass in the watch or in the Oceanic+ app?

 

[heftysmurf]

Yeah, there is a daily subscription.
The George Costanza in me is just acting up about the $10 monthly fee.
Even though I already am an iPhone user.
Is the underwater compass in the watch or in the Oceanic+ app?

The compass is part of the "app experience" I guess. When you're in dive mode, you can use the crown to scroll through a few various pages and the compass is one of them. My instructor bonked me on the head during my night/nav specialty course because my compass wouldn't stay lit after I shined my light on it so I used my AWU for navigating!

If your Costanza is acting up, I think the AWU purchase plus $10/year is the smarter play than a $700 dive specific computer.

I use my AWU exclusively as I've already head it, the sub for the year was cheap for Black Friday, and it does what I need it to do.

 

[Big Dan K]

I am still a new user of AWU2. Only 4 dives on it so far. Great smart watch on surface. I have been comparing the data to my Teric, which is my primary computer. So far it seems to be a perfectly useful computer and the app seems pretty good too. Once I get used to diving with it I plan to quit paying for the app and only turn it on when I go on multi day dive trips. $10 for 30 days seems fair enough. I only take one or two trips a year and my old backup computer was costing me $35+ every other year for a battery change.

 

[ProfSox]

Hi all. Just got back from a dive trip to SEA. Bali, Malaysia, Philippines. The watch is mostly good for diving. The "auto-launch app when submerged" functionality is a little iffy. 30% of the time, it did not open the Oceanic+ app when submerged, and I still had to press the action button. The safety stop trigger is a little too sensitive. The watch buzzes when I accidentally move my wrist by a foot. No biggie, you can stop the buzz with the action button. The syncing of dive info to the iPhone app is good. When I surfaced, and checked my phone during a surface interval, the watch & phone apps would sync the dive info. Also, the phone app has photo editing apparently. It's good for a surface smartwatch as well. The subscription fee is what kills me. I feel like it should be free.

 

[ecw]

I really liked my AW Ultra, until it froze up ~10 minutes into a dive. Luckily I was able to ascend and restart it without issue and continue.

So now I’m thinking I should buy a shearwater, and MAYBE use my watch on easy shallow dives.

But I did really enjoy it for the 50 dives I used it on before this, and it’s probably a still a good option for infrequent easy diving.

 

[RonaldP]

AUW is nice as a BACK-UP, but not as your primary, diving last month with a friend his AWU oceanic app just started and crashed, Rebooting did not help and we were out for a dive to 100ft were you want to monitor your ND time for sure.
I dive with a shearwater AI as primary and use the AWU as compass and in case my Shearwater fails as back-up.