You’ll have to use AL fins and hood with sensors.
Aqualung Aquasense announced (aquanounced?)
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NauticalNick
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schuylerclark
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At one point in the past, no one saw the value of having a phone you could take to the bathroom either. But I’d venture that some of the responses on this very thread were typed on the toilet.
Apple was a company in big trouble until they launched the iPod, which was arguably an overpriced, unnecessary gadget at the time too. Aqualung may be hoping this is their savior product.
Apple was a company in big trouble until they launched the iPod, which was arguably an overpriced, unnecessary gadget at the time too. Aqualung may be hoping this is their savior product.
SouthernSharktoothDiver
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@schuylerclark I mean, all of this really comes down to what the aquasense actually does. Unless I missed an announcement, once you strip away the buzzwords, corporate BS and vague allusions to cutting edge tech and features like AI, we're left with...not a whole lot of info.
If this device, for example had a combination of gas analyzers to detect CO2, CO, O2 fraction, helium, and perhaps moisture in the gas mix, that would be a feature I think many would consider worth a large part of the $1400 price tag. You could get real time confirmation that sketchy boat compressor didn't fill your tank with poison (or worse, rust inducing water). That would be excellent.
OTOH, if all it adds is an LED indicator and integrating your existing sensors into your regset, that's really not worth the price tag. So it all depends, what does this do? I know there's been allusions to helping with trim, not entirely sure if that's something AL claimed it does or something people are suggesting it might do, but either way, I don't see that being a huge factor to most divers, but my sample may be skewed. Other than the people on here, most divers I know (myself included) are young, relatively poor, and thus not spending $1400 on a regset even if it let them grow gills lol. The one rich guy I know that dives is a vacation only diver that rents gear. So I'm not really one to speak to the market for this I suppose.
I still say AL's best bet would be to pack the thing with gas sensors and such and market it to the tech crowd, but then, I'm not a tech diver, so I may well be talking out my fins.
If this device, for example had a combination of gas analyzers to detect CO2, CO, O2 fraction, helium, and perhaps moisture in the gas mix, that would be a feature I think many would consider worth a large part of the $1400 price tag. You could get real time confirmation that sketchy boat compressor didn't fill your tank with poison (or worse, rust inducing water). That would be excellent.
OTOH, if all it adds is an LED indicator and integrating your existing sensors into your regset, that's really not worth the price tag. So it all depends, what does this do? I know there's been allusions to helping with trim, not entirely sure if that's something AL claimed it does or something people are suggesting it might do, but either way, I don't see that being a huge factor to most divers, but my sample may be skewed. Other than the people on here, most divers I know (myself included) are young, relatively poor, and thus not spending $1400 on a regset even if it let them grow gills lol. The one rich guy I know that dives is a vacation only diver that rents gear. So I'm not really one to speak to the market for this I suppose.
I still say AL's best bet would be to pack the thing with gas sensors and such and market it to the tech crowd, but then, I'm not a tech diver, so I may well be talking out my fins.
fred32176
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Since aqualung customer service never responded to an email I sent on an issue with an i300c, I have zero faith in their customer service. God help the individuals that buy this thing.
On the good side, I have a red orcatorch dive beacon, if one someone using this thing were my dive buddy I could recognize him because he is the diver with the green dive beacon.
On the good side, I have a red orcatorch dive beacon, if one someone using this thing were my dive buddy I could recognize him because he is the diver with the green dive beacon.
Eric Sedletzky
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sbijou
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Perhaps cynicism comes with age, but how can a company that's stripping off assets (real estate, divisions, employee intellect and experience) and introducing new management without industry knowledge, nor capital , suddenly "wham bam poof" create this "revolutionary breathing eco-system"? I think it's a shell game as others have said with the only and ultimate goal of capital infusement. It's 2019 over again with the Hydroid breathing mask where speculation exceeded reality. Just my thoughts.
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